Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 327 Plant-Insect Symbiosis
Breaking through the middle stage of the Golden Core actually did not bring about any change in Li Ye's daily practice.

As he improved his formation skills over the years and continuously optimized and adjusted the formation, the top of the mountain, which is the core of the formation, can now achieve extremely strong blocking capabilities.

Although the vortex of spiritual energy brought about by the previous breakthrough was quite large, it was completely within the control of the formation and did not reveal any movement.

Even the many cultivators on Pingyang Mountain only felt a slight fluctuation in the spiritual energy at most, and nothing more. They had no idea that Li Ye's cultivation had quietly advanced another step forward.

As a result, he still had the Wood God Cauldron in his body to suppress his magic power. His aura was usually no different from that of ordinary mortals, and no one knew that he had reached the middle stage of the Golden Core.

On the contrary, it was the newly acquired entries this time, such as [Poisoning], which had obvious effects. As he once again presided over the sowing of the second-level spiritual fields in the mountains, many spiritual plants triggered the effects of the entries and gave birth to poisonous insects, which caused panic among the spiritual farmers in the mountains.

This is very different from the situation of the poisonous insects that mountain masters used to spread in the fields to help care for spiritual plants!
It was as if those poisonous insects had grown together with the spiritual plants from the beginning.

At first, they had to report the matter to Niu Hai and Zhang Chengfu first and find a solution, so as not to rashly cause the mountain master's wrath due to such changes.

This is not disloyalty, but simply an instinct for self-preservation. If he is unable to deal with them, he will naturally report to the mountain master Li Ye and let him make the decision.

However, if they are punished for improper care, they may not be able to bear it!
But Niu Hai and Zhang Chengfu are certainly much stronger than these spiritual farmers.

They have been taking care of the third-level spiritual field for so many years, and they can get personal guidance from Li Ye from time to time. Even Luo Feibai and Wen Chu, who hold great power, are jealous of such preferential treatment.

It can be said that his experience has honed his vision far beyond that of his peers.

One could see at a glance that the spiritual plant and the poisonous insect complemented each other and had a perfect symbiotic relationship. He knew that only the mountain master could do such a miraculous thing.

He immediately wrote the matter into a document and gave it to Rong Yue, who was to deliver it as soon as the mountain master came out of seclusion.

"Good good!"

After consolidating his middle Jindan realm, Li Ye came out of retreat and was immediately delighted and praised the description in the document.

Rong Yue looked surprised and asked:
"If this spiritual plant has insects, wouldn't that mean they're absorbing its medicinal essence and slowing its growth? Even if it's a poisonous insect, it's a bit unworthy... Why are you so happy, young master?"

Li Ye took Rong Yue in his arms and laughed:
"This is a unique secret technique that I have studied for many years. It allows plants and insects to coexist and nurture each other... The insects help the spiritual plants absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the earth veins. Not only can it make up for the energy consumed in nurturing the insects, it can even increase their growth rate..."

"Now that the secret method is complete, we can produce plants and insects at the same time, killing two birds with one stone. This deserves praise!"

Rong Yue couldn't help but open her mouth slightly when she heard this. If she could really do what Li Ye said, the profit from this kind of land would be really unimaginable.

Especially this second-level poisonous insect corresponds to a foundation-building cultivator!
Even though not every spiritual plant can give birth to poisonous insects, the number of them is probably unimaginable when the spiritual fields are so widely planted.

Li Ye might take a large portion of it, but the rest given to the disciples in the mountains is enough to greatly enhance the fighting skills of the group of cultivators, giving them considerable combat power to crush the disciples of other sects!
If this accumulates for a few rounds, maybe this poisonous insect will become the signature weapon of the people of Pingyang Mountain in the future!
"Rong Yue's knowledge is limited, and she failed to see the Young Master's miraculous means... Now that such a good thing has been accomplished, we really need to celebrate it properly. I will go tell Hong Yao to increase the standard and prepare a banquet!"

She said this happily, and gently broke free and stood up to go look for Hongyao.

"Hahahaha! Go ahead! I can take this opportunity to go check out the fields and avoid scaring those down there!"

Li Yesong opened the soft hand and let Rong Yue leave, then he walked down the mountain with a faint smile.

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"There's no problem at all. The Gu worm and the spiritual plant have achieved almost perfect symbiosis, and it hasn't had any adverse effects on its growth..."

Li Ye carefully observed the spiritual plant in front of him, and the cocoon that was almost integrated with its branches and leaves. Even though he had visited it several times in the past, he was still amazed.

This poisonous insect was entirely created from the essence of the spiritual plant, rather than being buried in the spiritual plant with a secret method when sowing, as he claimed, and growing stronger as the spiritual plant grew.

This evolution has almost transformed the elusive creation of heaven and earth into a stable and controllable means of production, which is infinitely close to creating something out of nothing.

Compared with the improvement of Li Ye's own spiritual roots and the impact brought to him by his own spiritual body, it is actually a bit greater.

The panel's magic is truly beyond imagination, and I wonder what its true nature is...

As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Li Ye immediately buried it in his heart.

He had pondered this question for a long time, but due to the limitations of his cultivation level, he could not come up with any answer.

If he wants to explore the true nature of this thing, why it appeared on his body, and even the reason for his travel through time, he still has to continuously improve his cultivation... When he reaches the end of the road, perhaps all of this will give him the answer by itself?
"The second-level spiritual field can already stably produce Gu worms. If I take good care of the third-level spiritual field, perhaps it can also produce some..."

Li Ye thought silently.

This time, after the third-level spiritual plants had initially matured, he was not in a hurry to harvest any acre of spiritual field.

The Five Elements, Gangji Fruit, Meat and Bone Hand Ganoderma, and Spirit-avoiding Grass have already filled the original third-level spiritual fields, and Li Ye will not harvest these as they are needed for his practice.

Now he can produce spiritual essence stably, and as the years go by, the spiritual essence is matched with each other, and the number of times he can open the furnace to refine pills each year increases slightly, which is enough to meet his needs for cultivation.

If he continued to cultivate it in this way, and when the medicinal power became insufficient, he could harvest the spiritual plants and use them together to refine the elixir, which would increase the medicinal power and enable him to advance by leaps and bounds.

The same is true for miscellaneous spiritual plants.

The Ghost Pupil Flower is related to Li Ye's attempt to refine his eyes. Over the past twenty years, his eyes have already become slightly mysterious. If this continues, he might be able to truly transform them, so he will not harvest them rashly.

Li Ye intends to cultivate the poison of the Silver Snake Grass to refine the poison pill and poison Gu. The Demonic Gu Branch is also prepared to keep it for when he has accumulated enough Gu worms this time, and then conduct large-scale joint training and upgrading to refine the Gu worms he has been preparing for a long time.

In this way, the spiritual energy load in the mountain is limited.

Unless a spiritual plant that is really useful to him appears, he will not forcibly upgrade the second-level spiritual field to the third level for farming.

Over the years, whenever he accidentally triggered a second-level spiritual plant like [Qingling] or [Tongtian], or a third-level spiritual plant collected and offered by others, he basically chose to grow them around the Kongjie Tree.

As for individual plants, with the spiritual energy from the array eye and the breath of the sky tree for nourishment, the few spiritual plants can still afford it for the time being.

Although it takes a little longer to feedback the entries, the goal can still be achieved. It just takes a little longer, which is not a problem for him.

Li Ye stood up and was about to give a few instructions to Niu Hai and Zhang Chengfu behind him, then returned to the top of the mountain. Suddenly, he looked outside and saw the familiar flying boat parked outside the mountain.

Xue Chou came again. It had been a few years since he last left with the magic weapon, so it was time to trade again.

However, this time when he saw him walking out of the flying boat, Li Ye suddenly had a sudden impulse and felt that something was wrong.

The sense of danger this person had never given him before emerged in his mind without any warning.

(End of this chapter)