: Cultivation, Corpse Taro

Before breaking through the Qi Refining stage, one only needs to meditate and draw the three-ring pattern. Once one breaks through the Qi Refining stage, one must not only draw the three-ring pattern, but also suppress and appease the spiritual energy.

This is not as simple as one plus one.

First, one needs to be able to use one's mind for two purposes, which alone will give many cultivators who are new to Qi Refining a headache for a long time. In addition, suppressing and calming spiritual energy will consume spiritual energy.

If one's mastery of the "basic visualization diagram" is not high, one cannot expect to make significant progress in the short term.

I don't know how long it has been.

When the divine soul particles, carrying the spiritual energy of wood and earth, enter the divine sea.

Zhu Yu sensed the consumption of his divine sense and reviewed the time with his True Sight Eye. Not counting the failures in the middle, it took nearly three hours to condense a single divine soul particle.

He had a feeling that even if he adapted to the influx of spiritual energy, it would be difficult to restore the efficiency of condensing a single soul particle every hour.

"Hopefully, once the 'Basic Visualization Diagram' is fully developed, things will change..."

Zhu Yu summoned his True Sight Eye and looked at the time allotted for analyzing the "Basic Visualization Diagram." Only "seventeen days" remained.

This is how he listened to all the courses on "basic visualization" taught in the lecture hall, reducing the time from two months to more than half a month.

"No rush, it'll be soon..."

Zhu Yu closed the information panel and immersed himself in meditation once again.

When the dome rises with eleven full moons, it is noon.

Wooden house, second floor.

"call…"

Zhu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, opened his eyes, sensed the three additional divine soul particles in his divine sea, and nodded in satisfaction.

Although it took a long time, I completed a day's practice.

The reason he was able to condense three soul particles was because he advanced to the Qi Refining Realm. Not only did his soul power surge, but the power of his overflowing soul power also increased significantly. Originally, without taking any pills, he could only overflow the equivalent of one and a half soul particles a day, but now he can overflow the equivalent of three soul particles a day.

It's roughly equivalent to a fourth-class qualification.

Taking him as an example, one can imagine how enormous the spiritual power of those sixth or seventh grade immortal seeds would be once they broke through to Qi Refining.

Of course, a seed of immortality like this would likely advance to the late stage of Qi Refining upon breakthrough, preparing for Foundation Establishment...

Just as he was pondering this, he heard a slight noise from outside.

"Um?"

Zhu Yu was puzzled for a moment, then got up and went to the window, where he saw the gray-robed servant from yesterday directing people to clean up the withered grass and broken branches in the yard.

Not far away.

A gray-skinned, sharp-horned rhinoceros pulled a huge vehicle to a stop, which was piled with a dazzling array of furniture.

"That's fast..."

I hope you are satisfied.

Although he was becoming increasingly inhuman in the early stages of Qi Refining, he still couldn't abstain from grains. He hadn't eaten for three days now, and if he forced himself to endure it for a few more days, it would delay his physical transformation.

I stepped downstairs and out of the living room.

Upon seeing Zhu Yu, who was dressed in black robes, the busy servants all stopped what they were doing and bowed respectfully.

"This humble servant greets Your Excellency."

"Yeah, you're busy."

Zhu Yu nodded slightly, beckoned the gray-robed servant, and instructed him to fill in the hole on the second floor. Then he stepped towards the corpse.

After checking the status of the "Tiger Corpse Seed" and confirming that it was unharmed, his gaze turned to the large area of ​​empty corpse fields.

"Leaving so many corpses lying idle is such a waste..."

Zhu Yu pondered for a moment, recalling the information recorded in the "Treasures of Nature" database. Soon, a seemingly insignificant spiritual object, about the size of an adult's fist, with a pitted and grayish exterior, came to mind.

Its name is "Corpse Taro". It is a first-grade low-level spiritual object. Like spiritual rice, it is edible and suitable for planting in the land of corpses. It has a spicy taste, is filling, and has the effect of tempering the body.

Most importantly, the "corpse taro" is very easy to grow. Just sow the seeds, and you don't need to take care of it much. After three months, you can harvest a large area of ​​fruit.

However, its ease of cultivation and high yield mean that its price cannot be high.

Zhu Yu had previously seen someone selling corpse taro at the market; twenty catties of it were only sold for one low-grade spirit stone, and even at that price, not many people inquired about or bought it.

"Either way, it's income; it's better than having it idle..."

After thinking it over, Zhu Yu decided to plant the "corpse taro".

It wasn't that he didn't want to plant other spiritual herbs suitable for cultivation in the corpse field, but rather that other spiritual herbs either had long maturation cycles or required spiritual water for irrigation, making them difficult to care for.

"Twenty catties for one spirit stone. Assuming a minimum yield of three thousand catties per mu for corpse taro, nearly three mu of corpse land would yield at least nine hundred spirit stones in half a year."

Zhu Yu silently calculated it, nodded in satisfaction, and thought that this must be a small perk that the sect gives to newly promoted disciples.

It seems that although the Heavenly Dao Sect requires spirit stones for everything, it is still quite good to its new disciples.

"The Spirit Field Palace has Corpse Taro seeds; I might as well buy a few pounds of spirit rice to try it out. And there's also tiger demon blood..."

Zhu Yu, having finished his thoughts, returned to the wooden hut, gave a few instructions to the gray-robed servant, turned around, descended the mound, and headed straight for the animal pen not far away.

The underworld is only a kilometer away from the spirit fields and the animal enclosures.

Halfway there, a gentle breeze brushed past, and the world seemed to change. The pervasive malevolent aura faded away, replaced by a fresh and wild atmosphere, as if one were in a wild mountain forest.

"A formation?... "

Zhu Yu's eyes widened in surprise as he looked around, but he couldn't see any signs. He exclaimed inwardly, "The art of formations is truly profound and unpredictable..."

Unfortunately, the transmission of array formations is rare, no, it should be said that all the arts of immortal cultivation are very rare. Among the many classrooms in the lecture hall, not a single one teaches the arts of immortal cultivation.

However, after being promoted to a junior disciple...

Zhu Yu learned that there was a "Dharma Pavilion" dozens of miles away from here, which contained thousands of Dharma gates. However, entering required contribution points, and exchanging for Dharma gates required an even greater amount of contribution points.

Without much thought, I found a grassy path and headed straight for the nearest main road.

Not long after.

Zhu Yu walked to a stone-paved road about three zhang wide. Looking around, he saw that every ten or so mu of spirit fields there was a beast pen that shimmered with spiritual light. Not far away, at the edge of a spirit field, stood a figure in a green robe. Rain clouds gathered in the spirit field in front of him.

"Could that be the rain cloud gathered by the Lesser Cloud Rain Technique?"

Zhu Yu was just about to ask someone where the Spirit Field Palace was when he saw this. He waited a moment, and after the rain clouds in the sky dissipated, he hurried over and cupped his hands in greeting from afar:

"My name is Zhu Yu, and I greet you, Senior Brother."

Upon hearing this, the figure in the green robe who had been facing away from him turned around. His appearance was striking, with white hair and a ruddy complexion, exuding an air of otherworldly elegance. He sized Zhu Yu up and down, stroked his beard, and smiled:

"I am Hong Xingwang. What advice does this junior brother have for me?"

Seeing that he looked kind and not like a bad person, Zhu Yu stepped forward, cupped his hands and said, "Greetings, Senior Brother Hong. I am a newly recruited disciple from the Underworld. I would like to ask how to get to the Spirit Field Hall."

"Um?"

Hong Xingwang was taken aback, his eyes showing a strange expression. Why were the people from the Underworld asking about the location of the Spirit Field Palace instead of going to the Corpse Cave? He thought to himself, "This is truly bizarre." He pointed to the upper right and said:

"Follow this stone path to the intersection, turn right and walk straight to the end, and you will find the Lingtian Temple."

"Thank you, Senior Brother Hong."

Zhu Yu hurriedly thanked him, bowed respectfully, and turned to leave.

Not long after he left.

"Tsk, the people from the Underworld are actually so polite..."

Hong Xingwang looked away, clicked his tongue twice, and turned to walk towards the next tenant's spiritual field.