Chapter 83 Takeover
Ji An marveled at the wonder of fate. Two years ago, Wei Songnian had recommended him to others, with the aim of having him join Ningcui Cliff.
At the time, Li Lingyu said that the spots were all gone, which must have been taken by Liu Yu.
Now, Liu Yu has recommended him to come here again, and the two forked threads of time have come together once more.
"Good, you are now at the ninth level of Qi Refining. If you cultivate diligently, you will reach the Foundation Establishment stage within a few years."
Ge Ying smiled broadly. A disciple with no one to rely on could break through to the ninth level of Qi Refining in just over five years. His aptitude must be quite good, probably close to the top grade.
It was fate that she was assigned to be a spirit farmer when she joined the sect; otherwise, she would have missed out on a good seedling.
This disciple most likely possesses the Water Element Body; it would have been a waste to assign him to the Weapon Refining Hall.
Ji An scratched his head, revealing a simple and honest smile:
"This disciple is working hard to accumulate contribution points, hoping to exchange them for Foundation Establishment Pills as soon as possible."
"If you perform your duties diligently in the herb garden, I will not hesitate to help you once."
Ge Ying waved her sleeve and led the people back to the living room:
"This herb garden belongs to the sect, and it is planted with second- and third-tier spiritual herbs. It has always been personally managed by your master."
I'll show you the herb garden you'll be in charge of from now on. You can spend two hours there cultivating during the day.
Ji An frowned slightly, wondering what his master meant by emphasizing the daytime.
He asked when he didn't understand, and said:
"Master, can't we stay in the herb garden to cultivate at night?"
"Yes."
Ge Ying gently shook her head and asked in return:
How much do you know about spiritual veins?
"I only have a vague concept, but I think it's the earth's veins where spiritual energy converges."
Although he often used the term 'spiritual vein,' this knowledge was clearly beyond his current understanding.
This knowledge was still far beyond his reach. He didn't care what spiritual veins were; as long as he could enter a spiritual vein to cultivate, that was enough.
"That's a rather one-sided view, but it's not entirely wrong."
The earth also has veins, just like the meridians of a person. The spiritual veins are to the earth what the immortal veins are to a cultivator.
If the spiritual veins dry up, this region will become a spiritual wasteland, no longer suitable for cultivators to live in.
"The spiritual vein can autonomously absorb the free spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the vicinity and gather it together, while at the same time it is constantly dissipating spiritual energy outwards."
If a spiritual vein consistently absorbs more spiritual energy than it dissipates, its quality will gradually improve.
"Cultivators have discovered that they can set up magic arrays to gather more spiritual energy to nourish the spiritual veins. As the quality of the spiritual veins improves, it will in turn help the cultivators to improve their cultivation."
Therefore, a large number of cultivators would gather near spiritual veins, which was the prototype of the birth of sects.
Ge Ying talked a lot, thoroughly popularizing Ji An's understanding of spiritual veins.
He learned that the spiritual fields cultivated on the sect's spiritual veins could provide spiritual herbs with enough spiritual energy to grow strong even without any spiritual farmers managing them.
The true role of the spirit farmer, besides accelerating the cultivation of spirit herbs, is to act as a 'fertilizer' machine, thus minimizing the consumption of spiritual energy in the earth's veins by the spirit herbs.
By artificially creating an environment where the concentration of external spiritual energy is higher than that of the spiritual vein through a magic array, the spiritual vein is nurtured and its quality is slowly improved.
Even a place without spiritual veins can slowly develop miniature spiritual veins under the continuous transformation of high-level spiritual farmers, but it takes a very long time.
Cultivators must absorb and exhale spiritual energy to improve their cultivation level. The higher the cultivation level, the more spiritual energy a cultivator absorbs and exhales. Sects will consciously limit the number of cultivators in a spiritual vein node.
The core territory of the Golden Spirit Sect was built on a second-grade high-quality spiritual vein. After thousands of years of cultivation and growth, the spiritual vein was upgraded to a second-grade top-quality spiritual vein, and the range of its radiation expanded significantly, extending into several branches.
Only after that did the sect gradually acquire the Golden Core inheritance.
However, a second-tier top-grade spiritual vein is not enough for a Golden Core Ancestor. Therefore, while the sect cultivates the spiritual vein, it will use a magic array to extract spiritual power from other branches for the Ancestor's cultivation. After all, a strong leader of the sect is more intimidating.
Ge Ying sighed softly and said:
"The quality of spiritual veins has a great influence on the strength of a sect."
Of the three sects, Falling Maple Valley is the most powerful because they cultivated a third-tier spiritual vein five hundred years ago, thus giving birth to their third Golden Core cultivator.
Originally, the three sects were evenly matched, but this balance was later broken.
The emergence of a powerful neighbor is itself a potential threat to the security of other forces.
The relationship between Jinling Sect and Yuanhe Mountain has become increasingly close, all in order to restrain the growing power of Luofeng Valley.
Ge Ying released her flying magic artifact, which carried Ji An and the other person to a medicinal garden on the mountainside and landed there.
She opened the forbidden area and stepped inside, saying:
"Every cultivator in the sect who has reached the Foundation Establishment stage can choose a spiritual vein node to cultivate at, and will also be given twenty acres of spiritual fields."
A mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator can obtain thirty mu, and a late-Foundation Establishment cultivator can obtain forty mu. Correspondingly, we also need to complete various sect tasks.
Ge Ying tossed out a jade slip and a jade tablet, then said:
"This is my private medicine garden, where I grow various spiritual herbs for refining Foundation Establishment stage pills. The jade token is a token for entering and exiting the restricted area, and the incantation to open and close the restricted area is in the jade slip."
You can find the specific tasks by checking the contents of the jade slip.
The cultivation methods for all the medicinal herbs in the herb garden are explained in the book. If you have any questions, you can ask Xiang Yong.
"Xiang Yong," Ge Ying called softly, the sound waves spreading through the spirit field.
From the thatched hut in the herb garden, a gaunt old man hurried out, approached, and bowed, saying:
"I was unaware of my master's arrival, please forgive me."
Ge Ying pointed at Ji An and said:
"This is my newly accepted disciple, Ji An. He will take over Ling Yu's position. The two of you will be in charge of the herb garden from now on."
"Liu Yu, later you take Ji An to choose a place to stay. I'm going back to my cave."
"Yes, Master."
"Respectfully seeing off my senior master."
Seeing his master leave, Ji An smiled and said:
"Please wait a moment, senior brother. I'll have junior brother Xiang show me around the herb garden to get a basic understanding of the situation."
"Please go ahead, junior brother."
After listening, Xiang Yong led the way, introducing the medicinal herbs planted in each area of the herb garden:
"Our task is simple: to bring rain on time, regulate the earth's energy, condense wood element beads every now and then, and then stimulate wood element spiritual energy to meet the needs of spiritual medicine at a certain stage."
However, these elixirs require a great deal of spiritual energy, and if we don't have enough manpower, our internal magical energy might not be sufficient.
He secretly lamented that his long-time partner of many years had left, and even Li Lingyu, a person who had devoted himself to him, had left.
If the new manager can't handle enough work, this old man will probably be worked to death.
"Does Uncle Ge have other candidates to manage the fields, but he's too embarrassed to say so directly, and wants me to leave on my own?"
Xiang Yong's mind was racing with countless thoughts.
After making a round of inspection, Liu Yu took Ji An away and flew to the foot of Ningcui Cliff.
"Junior brother, the spiritual energy here is much richer than that of the Azure Lake. You won't need to live there anymore."
You can choose any of the bamboo houses over there except the first one; that one belongs to Junior Brother Du Huaiyuan.
The two bamboo houses next to each other are Qingwan and Lingyu's residences. They prefer quiet, so don't disturb them, or you'll inevitably get a scolding from your senior sisters.
Ji An smiled and said, "Thank you for telling me, Senior Brother. Are these bamboo houses any different?"
"There is no difference."
"Then I'll just pick one randomly."
(End of this chapter)
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