My cultivation is too warm

Chapter 157 The Situation is Serious (Today's update volume remains the same, but it will be later)

What Xu Mo likes most about the Cang Gu world is that the people here all have their own ideals and pursuits, and more importantly, they all have the concept of home.

Love the land where I live and the people around me.

Therefore, after he explained the reasons for the previous changes in heaven and earth and the situation that the ancient world might face in the future.

Most people reacted the same way as him. They didn't want that kind of future and wondered what they could do for this land.

This is the concept that has been passed down from generation to generation over the long years since the two ancestors of Tianxuan Sect and Haoran Sect established the alliance of "The Ancient World Unites to Love Each Other as One Family".

After this concept was passed down to their generation, it can be said that it has been deeply rooted in their hearts and engraved in their bones.

When he said that it was up to him to decide whether to leave or stay, the little Taoist boy Yuanbao immediately stood up and said:

"Wuyou Lingnong, you've already said that our Canggu world might face famine in the future, so how could we possibly leave now?

Although we still don't know the specific details of the curse of the Heavenly Outer Daoist Master, isn't this the time for us spiritual plant masters to play our role?

The Dao Zun's curse may be terrifying, but no matter what, we must try our best and never let the terrible future of 'famine' befall our ancient world."

After Yuanbao finished speaking, his master Qingzhu nodded and said:

"Young people nowadays are so bold. They don't even take Dao Zun's curse seriously. They say it's up to them to decide whether to stay or leave. It's as if they are the only young people in the world who care about this world. We old people are useless."

"Pa!" The familiar scene, the familiar sound of a slap, and the familiar Yuanbao's puffy, white face and his watery eyes that were as big as two bells: "Master, why are you cursing again?"

Qingzhu's reaction was still extremely innocent, with a bewildered expression on his face. "When did I curse? Wasn't I praising Wuyou Lingnong's courage and determination?"

"How can you praise others like that?" Yuanbao said angrily.

After this pair of funny master and apprentice talk, no matter how tense the atmosphere is, it will quickly become relaxed.

Just like now, everyone instantly forgot their previous heavy mood and laughed softly.

Xu Mo looked at the two people who were about to quarrel again, and stepped forward to smooth things over, saying:
"Alright, Fellow Daoist Yuanbao, please don't be angry. I understand what Senior Qingzhu meant. He was praising me for my courage in facing the Dao Zun's curse and said he would stay and work with me."

Hearing this, Qingzhu touched his chin and nodded in agreement.

Yuan Bao stared at Xu Mo with eyes wide open, an expression of disbelief, as if he had seen a ghost, as if asking, "How can you understand this? How did you do that?"
Xu Mo smiled slightly when he saw this, "After spending a long time with the senior, you will naturally understand what he says."

Qingzhu's face was filled with relief. He looked at Xu Mo's expression as if he had just met himself. Then he turned around and looked at Yuanbao with disgust. This time he did not scold Yuanbao. Instead, he murmured to himself with some regret, "It would be great if Wuyou Lingnong was my disciple."

To Yuanbao, his words seemed to say nothing, but also seemed to say everything. It would be better to just scold him directly.

Yuanbao lowered his head, bit his lips, and said nothing, but his pitiful expression told everyone that he was about to cry.

Seeing him like this, the people who had been watching the excitement suddenly felt sorry for him, and soon someone stepped forward to change the subject and smooth things over:
"I think what you just said, Fellow Daoist Yuanbao, is very good. If the situation is really as serious as you said, then we naturally cannot leave. Just like Yuanbao said, isn't this the time when we spiritual plant masters are needed?

If even we, the spiritual plant masters, retreat, then our ancient world will truly have no future."

As soon as the man finished speaking, someone immediately stood up and said:

"That's right. If the spiritual plant path of this world has truly been destroyed, then isn't it us spiritual plant masters who can help this world find a new path?

Whether for ourselves or for the sake of all people in the world, we must stand up at this time."

As the two men finished speaking, the atmosphere in the crowd instantly became heated, and people behind them stood up one after another to express their opinions.

When the scene was ignited by the passionate enthusiasm, no matter whether people had such ideas before, their blood would burn with passion, and they would throw away all distractions, with only one thought in their minds, the same as that of everyone present.

Xu Mo watched everyone express their opinions, and his blood began to burn. He raised his hands with a solemn expression, made a Dao seal to everyone present, announced his current Dao name, and said loudly:

"In that case, I am free from worries here. Thank you all."

As he said this, he raised his fist to the sky and shouted, "Let us continue to embark on a brand new path for the future of Cang Gu!"

As soon as the words fell, everyone present, including Senior Brother Wang Er and Senior Sister Lin Miaoqing, raised their fists and shouted, "For the future of Cang Gu, let's embark on a brand new path."

The oath of the crowd resounded through heaven and earth. This was the oath from a group of ordinary and common spiritual plant masters. It sounded from Wuyou Peak and spread towards every direction of Cang Gu.

Then Xu Mo unceremoniously became the commander of the scene and gave orders to everyone:

"In that case, we will immediately start to take action. We should first count the spiritual plants affected by the curse and see if there are other ways to cultivate them. The key is spiritual rice. We must check all varieties of spiritual rice we have to see if they can be cultivated.

The Canggu Dao League is also doing the same thing, but as they did it, we must also do it ourselves, making sure to understand the status of every spiritual plant and herb clearly."

Naturally, everyone had no objection to Xu Mo's words. After he gave the order, everyone quickly took action.

Xu Mo turned his head to look at Senior Brother Wang Er and Senior Sister Ye Qingyue, and said to them, "I'll leave the affairs of Wuyou Peak to you, Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters."

The two nodded solemnly in response, "We are here in Wuyou Peak, just focus on your own business."

Xu Mo nodded, clasped his fists and saluted the two of them, then couldn't wait to go to the spiritual field of Wuyou Peak.

After arriving at the spiritual field of Wuyou Peak, he looked up and found that many spiritual plants and herbs had indeed withered.

It completely lost its vitality and turned into gray dead grass, falling there.

Of course, not all spiritual plants are like this, because the message he conveyed and the actions of Zixiao Daozun and others at the last moment did play some role.

But even so, the situation is not optimistic.

He took a quick look and found that only about 30% of the spiritual herbs planted in the entire spiritual field were intact.

Another 30% to 50% were in a half-dead state, affected by the curse, but not so completely.

If we can find a way to save them, there should still be hope.

As for the remaining 20%, they were completely withered and dead.

The number of 20% may not seem like much, but it actually has a huge impact. After all, most of the spiritual herbs and medicines are used to refine pills.

In alchemy, if even a single insignificant auxiliary ingredient was missing, the elixir would be impossible to make. This shows how huge this second loss was, and it was almost a devastating blow to the alchemy industry.

What's more, the enemy's core target is the spiritual rice, and the rest of the spiritual plants are just incidental.

Compared with spiritual plants such as spiritual herbs, Xu Mo found that the loss of woody spiritual plants was not much. Among the spiritual fruit trees planted in the entire spiritual field, only more than ten kinds were affected, and the impact was not serious. They were all in a half-dead state and not completely dead.

As for the others, they are intact.

And as he observed carefully, he found that the affected spiritual fruit trees seemed to have not been grafted.

The rest of the intact spiritual fruits were grafted.

After observing this phenomenon, Xu Mo had an idea and had a guess in his mind, "Could it be that the enemy's curse is ineffective against grafting?"

If that's the case, it's good news. At least we know a path to continue on.

However, this is just his guess. There are too few samples now, so he cannot be sure. The specific results can only be confirmed after the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance has compiled statistics from the entire Cang Gu world.

It is good news that woody spiritual plants are less affected.

However, the most important spiritual rice was all affected, just as Zixiao Daozun said.

In all the spiritual fields planted with spiritual rice in Wuyou Peak, not a single living spiritual rice plant could be found.

And it wasn't just the spiritual rice. He had previously planted some ordinary rice in the spiritual field for experiments, but now even those rice couldn't survive.

This made Xu Mo's face suddenly darken. This was indeed the worst situation.

If they can't even produce ordinary rice, then they won't be able to start their next experiments.

He had previously vowed to continue his research, wondering if it was possible to cultivate ordinary rice into magical rice.

But now if they can't even grow ordinary rice, then they don't even know how to start the experiment.

After all, spiritual rice itself can no longer be grown.

How can we conduct research when there is no rice to grow?

More importantly, even if the spiritual rice is gone, people who practice cultivation can still hold on for a while.

But if ordinary rice is gone, what will happen to the trillions of mortals in the entire ancient world?
They cannot go without food for a long time like those who practice cultivation. They will feel very hungry if they don’t eat for a day.

Thinking of this, he hurried towards the small world.

In order to facilitate everyone's experiments, he did not carry the small world with him, but fixed it in a valley on Wuyou Peak.

After entering the small world, he saw a group of people standing there with gloomy faces. As soon as he saw everyone's expressions, Xu Mo knew that the situation must be very serious.

However, he had already been mentally prepared for this, so it wasn't surprising.

He ignored everyone's expressions and asked impatiently after entering, "Let's not talk about the spiritual rice for now. Did any of the ordinary rice survive?"

Hearing his words, everyone was slightly stunned, and then someone replied: "Yes, there are quite a few, probably hundreds of varieties."

The man said and pointed in a direction.

Xu Mo looked in the direction he pointed and saw a field of living rice.

Seeing this scene, he breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense expression relaxed a little.

Fortunately, the worst situation did not happen. If there was no rice for ordinary people to eat, the consequences would be serious.

But soon he frowned again. If he remembered correctly, the rice planted in that area were all the magical rice varieties he cultivated when he was experimenting with hybrid rice technology, right?

It was only because of the failure of the experiment that it degenerated into ordinary rice.

Then he looked around and found that all the living things in the spiritual field seemed to be failed varieties from his experiments.

And there seemed to be not a single plant of the ordinary rice that he had specially found to plant.

After seeing this discovery, his face darkened and he asked the people present, "Everyone, go to the spiritual field and see if the surviving ordinary rice are all the failed varieties left over from our experiments."

Hearing his words, many people were slightly stunned and showed puzzled expressions.

When Qingzhu, who was not far away, heard his words, his expression suddenly changed and his figure instantly disappeared into the distance. A moment later, he appeared in front of Xu Mo and nodded solemnly, "That's true."

Upon hearing this, Xu Mo frowned immediately, with a gloomy look on his face.

Seeing their expressions, everyone was puzzled. Someone couldn't help but ask, "Is there something wrong with this?"

Qingzhu sighed upon hearing this, and replied with a complicated expression: "This represents good news and bad news.

The good news is that the hybrid spiritual rice research we're currently conducting should be a viable new path to address the curse of the Outer Dao Zun. As long as our research is successful, we can resolve the crisis facing the ancient world."

Everyone's faces lit up when they heard this. Someone said excitedly, "That's great! We've been researching hybrid rice technology for so long now, and now we can continue. This is much better than starting over again in confusion and with no direction."

After the man finished speaking, someone asked, "What's the news?"

Qingzhu was silent for a moment after hearing this, and replied with a heavy expression: "The bad news is that all the ordinary rice planted in the Canggu world has been destroyed.

And there are so many ordinary people in the ancient world, what should they eat?"

Hearing his words, someone subconsciously replied: "Don't we still have these hybrid rices?"

After saying that, the man immediately covered his mouth, then reacted and muttered blankly, "Yes, there are so many people in the Canggu World. If all the rice is destroyed, won't there be no food to eat in the next six months to a year? Even if we start planting our hybrid rice now, it will take time to mature."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent and the scene fell into silence.

(End of this chapter)