Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 40: Ji Qing’s Guidance, Difficulties in Building the Foundation (Please Recommend!)

“Finally, some feedback?!”

Li Ye looked at the information on the panel and was a little surprised.

He subconsciously turned his head to look at the sunflower he had just taken care of.

Judging from its condition, it is indeed slightly better than the others.

But since they were all grown by himself, at least the growth conditions of the first 250 sunflowers were not much different.

With the first strain, others should follow soon.

"Unfortunately, I've been tending to the other 750 flowers for quite some time, and they haven't even given me their first feedback yet. I don't know when I'll have to wait..."

Li Ye shook his head, cheered himself up, and continued to take care of the next flower.

We proceed one by one in this way, and when we have finished processing them all, we will get about ten feedbacks.

Before leaving the spiritual field, Li Ye carefully shook off the dirt on his hands and dropped it back into the field. He looked quite cautious and even checked again to see if there was any dirt on his body.

After all, the soil in this second-level spiritual field was personally prepared by Elder Ji using Red Sun Soil. If he accidentally mixed it in and was misunderstood as stealing the spiritual soil, wouldn't that be an unexpected disaster?

"Hmm... The sunflowers are growing quite well, each one full of life. So far, none of them have shown any signs of withering or decaying. They are much better than the ones I planted myself..."

"Li Ye, you did a really good job!"

Elder Ji had reached the edge of the field at some point, and when he saw the rather pleasing field, he praised it sincerely.

Li Ye immediately bowed,
"It's just my job, Elder, thank you for your praise."

"Don't be so reserved. Since you've done a good job, I'll reward you!"

Elder Ji waved his hand, glanced at Li Ye, and smiled playfully.

"Your accumulated Qi and blood have finally broken through. Calculating the time, you've reached the first level of Elephant Armor Power a few points faster than normal..."

"You are someone who is willing to invest resources!"

The tone of his words was strange, as if he believed that Li Ye's devotion to body training was actually for some other purpose.

Li Ye just replied,
"My body was weak before, and after a severe injury, my Qi and blood were even more depleted. I really don't want to go through that kind of pain again, so I made up my mind to practice the way of body refining..."

"If it can increase our ability to protect ourselves, it's worth investing some resources!"

"Hahahahaha! Well said!"

Ji Qing suddenly laughed and patted Li Ye on the shoulder.

The force was so great that even though Li Ye had already achieved initial physical training, he still felt half of his body numb.

After laughing, the tall man withdrew his hand and shook his head with regret.
"Your personality is quite good, but unfortunately your aptitude is too poor. Your spiritual roots are not only of low quality but also of earth and wood. They are far from my main cultivation method. Your physical condition is only passable. It is hard to say what you will achieve in the future..."

"Otherwise, if you were any better, I would have considered taking you in as my disciple!"

After spending these days together, Ji Qing has seen all of Li Ye's behavior.

Lingzhi has high skills, can endure loneliness, has clean hands and feet, and is quite resourceful.

In previous competitions, he did a good job both in winning over his companions and inflicting heavy losses on his opponents.

If his talent was a little better, Li Ye would basically kowtow and become his disciple!
Elder Ji spoke so honestly that it was obvious that he didn't care about Li Ye's feelings.

When he heard this, he felt as if his heart was stabbed several times.

pain!It hurts so much!
What do you mean? Where is the reward you promised me?

It's fine if you don't want to accept me as your disciple, after all, I have no interest in it anyway...

But why didn’t I see any benefit? Instead, I was belittled by words!

Li Ye seemed expressionless, but his heart was bleeding.

If it was something else, he would just laugh it off, but to say that he had poor qualifications...that was really unbearable!

However, in Ji Qing's eyes, his expression of suppressing his emotions became a regret that he could not be accepted as a disciple.

I couldn't help but feel soft-hearted for a moment.

"But even if I won't accept you as my disciple, I won't treat you unfairly!"

He changed the subject, hesitated for a moment, and took out a jade slip and threw it to Li Ye.
"This is my experience in practicing Qi training. You can take it as a reference."

Li Ye held the jade slip, his face lit with joy and he immediately bowed down.
"Thank you for your gift, Elder. I will do my best to take care of these spiritual plants for you!"

"Well...work hard. If you can still maintain more than 900 sunflowers by the time they mature, I will definitely give you more!"

Seeing Li Ye's reaction, Ji Qing nodded with satisfaction, gave him some instructions, and turned to leave.

When he walked into the hall, Li Ye sighed with a complicated expression.

"Qualifications..."

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"Elder Ji is truly generous!"

Flipping through the jade slip in his hand, Li Ye couldn't help but admire it.

What Elder Ji said about his poor qualifications was simply forgotten!
It not only contains the many problems that Elder Ji encountered during his practice from Qi training to foundation building, but also their corresponding solutions.

There are also various cultivation techniques, covering both cultivation and body training.

After just a quick look, some of the questions that Li Ye had been having for a long time were answered, and he benefited a lot.

Even the last part records some of Elder Ji’s experiences and insights when he broke through the foundation-building stage!

Li Ye looked at the content above and couldn't help but show a look of shock on his face. When facing the impact of the spiritual power absorbed by the breakthrough, even Elder Ji with his strong physique found it very difficult to bear and felt that his meridians were breaking.

Later it was concluded that it was due to insufficient spiritual training, the progress of spiritual transformation had not kept up, and the control over the huge spiritual power was weak.

As a result, he can only rely on his physical strength to withstand the transformation of his magic power and spiritual consciousness, and then gradually control his spiritual power.

"Mana power and physical strength are the bottom line, determining the limit of endurance during a breakthrough, while spirit determines whether the breakthrough can be completed more smoothly..."

Li Ye seemed to be lost in thought.

After traveling through time and integrating the legacy of his predecessor, his mental power was quite good. He was relatively sensitive to external objects, and his mental power was also tempered when refining pills...

But just this seems to be a little insufficient.

"But the secret method of improving the spirit is really precious. I asked Niu Ba in the library, but he said that he didn't have it on the floor he could access... Then even if the sect has it, it is definitely not something I can get!"

"To be on the safe side, the probability of a breakthrough should be highest if all three aspects of spirit, energy, and spirit are flawless..."

“But if I can’t find the secret method of spiritual power, I can only follow Elder Ji’s example and refine my physique and magic power to the best level possible to cope with the difficulties of foundation building…”

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A few more days passed, and under Li Ye's dedicated care, all the 250 sunflowers he had initially cared for had given spiritual feedback.

In the end, two complete copies of the Fiery Sun Spirit Essence were collected!
But as the surprise faded, Li Ye suddenly realized a problem...

It seems that he has no suitable means to utilize these two rays of scorching sun spiritual essence!

Directly refining it does not match his attributes.

If he forcibly refines and absorbs it, the pure yang fire power may be able to directly ignite Li Ye's wood-attribute magic power, causing his magic power to burn to death!

And if you want to make pills, it must be at least the top-grade Yang-attribute pills to be worthy of being used as medicine!
Li Ye doesn't have the recipe for the elixir now, and his alchemy skills are far from that level, so he can only think about it.

Is it really the only way to save it for now?
After pondering for a moment, his previous guess came to mind, and Li Ye gritted his teeth and walked towards the talisman-making room.

(End of this chapter)