After being universally criticized online, he cultivates immortality and farms to lead his motherlan

Chapter 174 The Role of the Vase

Long Wu thought her eyes were playing tricks on her, so she rubbed them.

Everything around me has changed, except for the dishes on the table and the people in front of me.

The three of them, along with the dining table, seemed to have been transported to a vast and boundless wilderness.

The night sky is dark, and the stars twinkle.

With a loud bang, dazzling fireworks burst in the sky not far away.

Zhang Nan cried out in delight, like a groundhog, "Ahhh!"

Long Wu instinctively grabbed Jian Ning's arm with both hands, her whole body trembling as she said, "I didn't eat any mushrooms, Ningning, I think I'm seeing ghosts! I'm hallucinating!"

Jian Ning put her arm around her shoulder reassuringly, "Don't be afraid, it's just an illusion."

Zhang Nan was still shouting excitedly, his voice cracking, "Ningning, you're amazing! How did you do that?"

Jian Ning's spiritual power condensed into purple light threads. Perhaps because she had already established her foundation, she no longer found it as difficult to use the "Dream Heart Sutra" as before.

A romantic fireworks show requires almost no spiritual power from her.

Long Wu looked at Jian Ning with a completely bewildered expression, "Ningning, when did you poison us with mushrooms?"

Jian Ning hadn't spoken yet.

Zhang Nan had already taken the initiative to explain for her: "Xiao Wu, there's something you might find hard to believe. But please believe me, it's true, Ningning is cultivating immortality!"

“Cultivation…immortality…” Long Wu murmured repeatedly, her questioning gaze shifting between the two faces. “You two…are you really not working together to prank me?”

Jian Ning looked at Long Wu with certainty in her eyes: "I didn't play a prank, I am a true cultivator."

She didn't intend to make this public, but Xiao Wu and Nan Nan were people she wanted to believe.

Perhaps, it is foolish to entrust your 'back' to someone else.

But Jian Ning believes that genuine friendship and sufficient trust are not necessarily a bad thing.

At least, she was willing at this moment.

Long Wu looked at everything before her. Even if she couldn't believe it, her eyes wouldn't lie.

Such an exaggerated scene cannot be explained by scientific logic.

She looked at Zhang Nan, "Nan Nan, you already knew?"

Without thinking much, Zhang Nan blurted out, "I already knew about it before the New Year."

A hint of disappointment flashed in Long Wu's eyes.

The disappointment stemmed from the fact that, in the three-person team, I always seemed to be the one lagging behind.

But she quickly calmed herself down.

Even if she wasn't Jian Ning's number one friend, she was definitely number two!

Long Wu exclaimed excitedly, "Ningning, you're amazing! What else is involved in cultivating immortality?"

Jian Ning gave her a brief demonstration of fire manipulation techniques.

Long Wu stared in disbelief.

What was supposed to be a New Year's celebration lunch turned into a nighttime event in the countryside, under a sky full of fireworks.

All three of them ate until they were very full.

After finishing the meal, the distorted space, like a palette of colors blended together, gradually revealed distinct colors, and the scene before my eyes slowly transformed into a real villa.

Jian Ning finished her meal and was still savoring the memory.

"This chicken is quite delicious, where did you buy it?"

Zhang Nan said, "The chickens you raise."

Jian Ning then realized that she had raised chickens and commented on it.

"No wonder the chicken tastes like chicken."

Long Wu smacked her lips and agreed, "It's really delicious. It's nothing like the chicken sold outside, which doesn't even taste like chicken."

Zhang Nan chuckled and looked at Jian Ning, saying honestly, "Xiao Wu and I have been craving them for a long time. Those chickens are living so freely, just looking at how they're flapping around, you know they must taste delicious. So, taking advantage of your return to celebrate the new year, I caught one."

Jian Ning has always been very generous in this regard.

"If you like to eat them, grab a few to take with you."

Long Wu shook her head. "Ningning, you only raise so many chickens. You should keep them for yourself."

Jian Ning thought of something: "What you said reminds me that I can raise more this year."

Before leaving, Zhang Nan and Long Wu each carried a cage, the chickens inside still clucking. Their brief reunion was over.

Zhang Nan is going to join a film crew, and Longwu has a brand event to attend.

Everyone's busy, and Jian Ning is about to get busy too.

She watched the system's silent countdown urging her on, reminding her that she still had a timed task to complete, and then checked the task progress.

[Progress in cultivating 5 types of high-level spirit plant seeds: 0/5.]

She took out a carrier pigeon from her storage ring and contacted Rose to report that she had returned to Beicheng and would be working with Professor Jiang on seed research.

Then, she took the initiative to contact Professor Jiang.

As a result, no one answered the phone, and no one replied to the messages sent half an hour later.

Jian Ning knew that Professor Jiang was even harder to contact than those elderly people who didn't like to carry their phones around.

She could only send Jiang You a WeChat message and arranged to meet him at the experimental base in the afternoon.

Behind the scenes, it was N09 who acted as a matchmaker, connecting her with Professor Jiang to develop seeds together.

On the surface, she also happens to have an employment letter from the base, and is a specially appointed plant expert at the base.

In the eyes of other researchers, Jian Ning's presence at the base was perfectly normal, and they wouldn't consider any other factors.

After all, the organization only told Professor Jiang that Jian Ning had some extraordinary abilities in cultivating plants.

The specifics of cultivating immortality are still unknown.

Even the fact that he was exceptionally skilled in cultivating plants had to be kept secret.

Therefore, only Professor Jiang, Jiang You, and a few core personnel specializing in seed research knew about this matter.

Jian Ning took a taxi to the base, where Jiang You came to pick her up.

Upon meeting, Jiang You gave her a big hug: "Ningning, Happy New Year."

Then, she began to defend her teacher: "The teacher has been very busy. He said he just saw your message. Please don't mind."

Jian Ning shook her head and said, "It's nothing."

Jiang You lowered his voice and whispered, "Teacher never carries his phone with him. I've told him several times, but he doesn't listen. Actually, I can never get in touch with him either."

The familiar smell of crickets still lingers in the background.

Jian Ning smiled and said, "It's rare to find someone like him who can abandon electronic products and focus all his attention on agronomy."

Jiang You naturally agreed, but when she couldn't get in touch with her teacher, she did get really frustrated. She would chirp a few times to ease the awkwardness of not being able to contact her teacher.

"By the way, some people came to the base today, so you might have to wait a bit," Jiang You reminded them.

Jian Ning nodded: "Yeah, I'm free later."

Jiang You frowned slightly and complained, "It's really speechless. This year, the higher-ups insist on this base integration thing. That Professor Liu is no good either; he's always tripping up his teachers and likes to compete for everything. But luckily, Liu Li doesn't know about your situation yet, otherwise, given his personality, he would definitely use you as a way to get promoted."

Jian Ning was unaware of these matters, so she simply listened.

As Jiang You was speaking, a group of people slowly walked over from a distance, and she immediately fell silent.

"Jian Ning?"

Someone recognized Jian Ning and exclaimed in surprise.

It wasn't because Jian Ning was a strange person; they had all heard about Jian Ning's farming and the potion incident.

However, I heard that this time, the higher-ups sent an assistant to Professor Jiang.

Jiang You just picked up the person for this matter.

So, this helper is Jian Ning?
Liu Li himself felt somewhat resentful because his superiors were sending people to help Jiang Fuguo, but not assigning anyone to him.

Especially now that the experimental bases are to be integrated, the future leader of the bases will definitely be either him or Jiang Fuguo.

Liu Li felt even more threatened.

However, even after the previous potion incident, Liu Li did not think Jian Ning would be a threat.

After all, what can a woman accomplish?

An obscure actress who switched careers to farming, selling vegetables using her online popularity, has somehow managed to find an "antidote" to the soil poisoning incident.

Liu Li chuckled and looked at Jiang Fuguo beside him.

"Junior brother, is this the helper the higher-ups sent you?"

He looked Jian Ning up and down a few times, and commented nonchalantly, "I think she's just a pretty face at best."