As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 979 Wind Spirit Healing Horse Market

The ball of lightning, like a snowball, had grown to the width of an adult's outstretched arms. Purple lightning crackled, and the lamps in the room flickered erratically due to the special magnetic field.

Mo Sheng glanced at it indifferently, commented "clumsy dragon," and continued to perch against the wall in his wolf form, looking at his fire-based mystical arts from his previous life with a refined and aloof air.

Fei Xuan deeply agreed with Mo Sheng's words.

Jiang Ran's temples throbbed, and her slender fingers immediately transformed into swords, drawing a petal-shaped rift in the void. "Release it here!"

Bai Mei let out a dragon's roar and immediately threw the giant thunderball inside.

"BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!"

About a kilometer above the Lingze Islands, a huge thunder dragon roared through the air, like a sword cleaving through the void. In an instant, night turned into day, and a tremendous sound wave exploded outwards.

The people on land were stunned, thinking that divine lightning had struck. Even from a distance of a thousand meters, they felt a tingling sensation in their muscles, as if they had been electrocuted by the aftershocks of the lightning.

Half a minute later, the thunder and lightning in the sky gradually dissipated, the daylight faded, and the earth was once again shrouded in darkness.

Inside the Wenyuan Pavilion, the air was completely still.

As the cracks in the white petals disappeared, Jiang Ran breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the intact library.

Looking at the guilty-looking Bai Mei, Jiang Ran beckoned with her finger, "Come here."

Knowing he was guilty, Xiaolong closed his eyes with a resigned air and extended his fair forehead.

Jiang Ran slightly bent her middle finger and tapped Bai Mei's forehead.

Bai Mei cried out in pain, "It hurts!"

The Cangyue Tyrannosaurus's defensive power was terrifying, yet Bai Mei's forehead was still turned bright red by Jiang Ran's seemingly ordinary head bounce.

"You're not allowed to use such powerful moves indoors next time."

Jiang Ran scolded him a few times, and thinking about the move just now, she couldn't help but say, "The power of that chaotic lightning ball just now is not something that a low-level technique can produce. What chaotic lightning ball? I think it's more like an exploding giant lightning ball."

Bai Mei straightened his back proudly. "Of course, the mystical arts I, Bai Mei, use are far beyond what any earth-level spell can compare to."

Jiang Ran could tell that Bai Mei seemed to have used the chaotic thunder as a base, adding some strange spiritual power to it, or perhaps reversing the original trajectory of the spiritual power, in order to create this explosive giant thunderball.

This power is comparable to some Saint-level mystical arts.

Unfortunately, this was something Bai Mei made up haphazardly, and he couldn't control it; moreover, it could easily hurt him.

Jiang Ran's gaze swept over Bai Mei's half-burnt hand, which was also stained with some blood. If it weren't for his strong physical body and powerful self-healing ability, that lightning ball, if it had transformed into another Dan Tian Realm demonic beast, would have had its entire arm swept up and crushed by the giant lightning ball.

"You have quite a few ideas. Although your first attempt failed, this kind of self-created mystical technique is still worth promoting. Just don't be as reckless as you were today in the future, and always pay attention to your own safety and the safety of your property."

Bai Mei also found the self-created cultivation method quite interesting and was thinking of trying it out again in the future. Upon hearing this, she obediently nodded.

Seeing their master's encouragement, Mo Sheng's wolf ears stood up slightly, and Fei Xuan's antennae twitched. They thought that they should also create their own techniques to strengthen themselves and not be left behind by Bai Mei!

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Jiang Ran spent two hours roughly scanning through all the cultivation techniques, noting down the useful ones and automatically discarding the rest. Tianchen and Chaolian valued cultivation techniques, a decision made in this unique era, which is why these books were relatively well-preserved.

Other books, such as those on agriculture, politics, law, geography and history, were relatively neglected. Jiang Ran even found that many of these books had serious stains and damage.

Jiang Ran highlighted the spirit breeding records of the two major provincial capitals, such as the breeding record of the Moonflower Vine Fairy. Since Tianchen County was able to raise such a fairy, this breeding record contains valuable information on spirit cultivation that can be used as a reference.

Finally, she also found a book called "Fengling Healing Horse Collection" in the library of Chaolian County.

This book clearly records some methods of raising the Fengling horse, especially the detailed description of the feed formula for the horse.

In addition, there is the breeding and postpartum care of the Fengling horse.

Jiang Ran was pleasantly surprised.

"However, why does Chaolian County have such a breeding manual, but we haven't seen Chaolian County try to breed Wind Spirit Horses?"

Out of curiosity, Jiang Ran had her personal scribe Chun Shu summon a few officials who now resided in the Qingwo Courtyard and were from the Chaolian region.

These officials, who should have been asleep, hurriedly dressed and rushed to the Wenyuan Hall upon hearing His Highness's summons.

"Your subject greets Your Highness, Prince Du!"

Jiang Ran told the person to stand up and asked them about what she didn't understand.

"Among the books in Chaolian’s collection, I found some manuals on raising Fengling horses. The text was very detailed and the content was quite remarkable. It seemed to have some feasible aspects. Moreover, the western region of Chaolian is flat and has abundant grass. So why don’t we see Chaolian raising Fengling horses?"

Officials in the Chaolian region looked at each other, their expressions bitter.

After a long pause, a Ministry of Revenue official who looked to be in his forties stepped forward and said with some humiliation, "Your Highness, that's because the former Chaolian County was afraid of the capital of Daze Province!"

She explained the whole story.

The Wind Spirit Horse has always been monopolized by the Grand Strategy.

There were other forces that wanted to break the monopoly of the Wind Spirit Horse before.

However, after breeding, the keepers found that the foals of the Fengling horse were too fragile, and despite spending a lot of effort, the survival rate of the foals was only a pitiful 10%.

It seems that only in the unique grassland environment of Daze can the foals of the Wind Spirit Horse grow up healthily.

In addition, Da Ce did not want other forces to breed Wind Spirit Horses, so all male horses sold were uniformly castrated.

The input and output were not proportional, so gradually fewer people had the resources to cultivate the Wind Spirit Horse.

When Xiao Yangba ruled Chaolian County, the situation was naturally similar.

"Although Chaolian County is an independent county, it is still subject to Da Ce and has to pay Da Ce millions of spirit crystals, minerals and fodder from its territory every year."

"Chaolian is separated from Dace Province by a mountain and a river. Some grasslands in Yunhe County and Cangyan County of Chaolian have similar quality to those in Dace."

"These grasslands are not used by Chaolian herself for breeding Wind Spirit Horses. Instead, Da Ce requires that high-quality grass be harvested every year and made into horse feed such as Peiyuan cakes and Moling grass cakes, which are then sent to Da Ce..."

"It's just that the people of Chaolian suffer greatly. Every year, they have to expend countless hours of labor to harvest at least a thousand shi of pasture grass, and then use the wheat, grains, beans, and other hard-earned ingredients from their homes, along with the harvested pasture grass, to make horse feed such as Peiyuan cakes and send them to Dace..."