My cultivation is too warm

Chapter 158 The Decision of the Canggu Dao League

Xu Mo quickly took out the communication jade talisman from Taoist Zixiao and asked him about ordinary rice.

Taoist Zixiao on the other side told him in a particularly heavy tone that the situation was more serious than expected, especially as it affected mortals. Not only rice, but all other staple foods were affected.

This means that everyone in the world has lost all their harvest for six months to a year.

What’s more serious is that because of the curse, they will not be able to grow staple food in the future.

The number of mortals in the ancient world is measured in trillions. With such a large population, the crops grown there are gone, and there will be no way to grow crops in the future. It is hard to imagine what kind of human tragedy the future will be.

Taoist Zixiao, who had traveled to the other side of the jade talisman, felt extremely depressed. He originally thought that the enemy was only targeting those who practiced cultivation.

I didn't expect that even mortals were targeted. Every cultivator started his journey on the path of cultivation from being a mortal. Doing this is to cut off the roots of the ancient world.

If there were no living beings, would the ancient world still have a future?
After Xu Mo heard what Zixiao Daozun said, he quickly told him the news about hybrid rice:
"I contacted you to tell you this. When I was researching increasing the production of spiritual rice, I cultivated many new seeds. They were all failures. The original spiritual rice degenerated into ordinary rice. However, these rice plants are still alive and well, unaffected by the curse. I hope that everyone in the world can grow this kind of rice as food in the future."

When Daoist Master Zixiao heard the news, he was immediately overjoyed. "Great, great, great, great! My dear child, you are truly the lucky star of our Canggu World."

Xu Mo was not optimistic and expressed his concerns: "But the Canggu World is so big. Compared with the entire Canggu World, the seeds I have here are just a drop in the bucket. It is far from enough to solve the current predicament."

Daoist Master Zixiao was silent for a moment, then he sighed, "That's right, as long as there are seeds that can be planted, there is hope, there is a future.

Child, please take good care of the rice first. This is the last spark of hope for our ancient world, and nothing can happen to it again.

I'll think about how to handle the current situation first, and I'll come find you in a couple of days."

After Daoist Master Zixiao finished speaking, he quickly cut off the connection.

Xu Mo didn't know how Daoist Zixiao and the Canggu Dao Alliance would deal with the current situation, but as Daoist Zixiao said, the failed products of the experiment in the small world now might be the only grain seeds that mortals in the Canggu world could grow in the future.

When he thought that the hopes of billions of ordinary people in the world were pinned on him, he suddenly became extremely nervous.

Then, with an extremely serious expression, he said to those present, "You should all have heard what I just said. This rice crop may be our last hope. I implore everyone to pay close attention and take good care of it. Absolutely no accidents should occur."

Everyone responded solemnly, "Don't worry, Wuyou Lingnong, we will never let any accidents happen. We will keep an eye on them twelve hours a day."

After hearing everyone's responses, Xu Mo did not relax. He planned not to leave here until Zixiao Daozun came to find him.

This is not because he does not trust the people present, but because as the person in charge here, he must stay here to know what is going on.

Not long after, he suddenly received a message from the Nine Wonderful Saint. He took out the message jade talisman, and heard the tired voice of the Nine Wonderful Saint:

"Wuyou, how much spiritual rice do you have left?"

Xu Mo was slightly stunned when he heard this, then turned to look at Qingzhu. After learning that something had happened to the spiritual rice, he arranged for people to count the spiritual rice reserves.

After all, all the spiritual rice being planted has been destroyed, and no new spiritual rice will be produced in the future. Before new spiritual rice can be produced, we will have to live frugally in the future.

In order to support Xu Mo's research, the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance once sent him a large amount of spiritual rice.

He did not evade the communication between him and the Nine Wonderful Saints. When Qingzhu saw him looking at him, he understood what he meant and slowly said, "The spiritual rice reserves here are enough for about 100 million cultivators for three years."

"So many?" Although Xu Mo knew that the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance had sent a huge amount of spiritual rice, he had no idea how much it was. After hearing Qingzhu's answer, he was surprised.

Qingzhu shook his head. "It's not much, actually. You have to know that we have 300 million mu of experimental spiritual fields. If we use this amount for experiments, it won't take long."

Xu Mo suddenly understood, and he understood what was said.

He then informed the Holy Lord Jiu Miao of the spiritual rice reserves.

Jiu Miao Shengzun said hesitantly: "Now the Cang Gu Dao Alliance needs to gather all the spiritual rice of everyone in the world and control it in a unified way. Your..."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Mo understood and quickly replied: "Don't worry, senior, there is no problem on my side. I promise to cooperate wholeheartedly with the actions of the Cang Gu Dao League."

Hearing his answer, Jiu Miao Sheng Zun breathed a sigh of relief. He had already contacted many people today. Although others were willing to cooperate in the end, he still had to spend a lot of time to convince them by appealing to their emotions and reason.

This was the first time someone like Xu Mo took the initiative to express his wholehearted cooperation before he even finished speaking.

This made him feel touched. Wuyou Lingnong was indeed a good boy who cared about the people of the world.

In fact, Xu Mo didn't think it was that complicated. He simply felt that no matter whether he cooperated or not, since the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance had made this decision, it naturally could not be changed. With his weak arms and legs, how could he possibly shake the decision of the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance.

In that case, what else is there to say? It’s better to take the initiative.

"Okay, someone will come over later. Wuyou, just give the spiritual rice to those people." After the Saint Jiu Miao said this to Xu Mo, he hurriedly cut off the connection.

He still needs to continue to notify and persuade other people. He hopes that everyone can be as easy to talk to as Wuyou. Jiu Miao Shengzun sighed in his heart and then started to contact the next person.

Half a day later, several people wearing standard Taoist robes came into Xu Mo's small world. After taking the storage magic weapon containing spiritual rice from Xu Mo, they raised their hands and formed a Taoist seal towards him, saying respectfully, "Thank you Wuyou Spiritual Farmer for your generous cooperation."

Xu Mo stopped and said righteously: "Fellow Daoists, there is no need to be polite. This is all for Cang Gu."

When they heard his words, their expressions became even more respectful, and they sighed with sincere admiration: "It is said that Wuyou Lingnong is a sincere person who cares about the people of the world. Now it seems to be true. We in Cang Gu are so lucky to have such a spiritual plant master."

After saying that, they bowed to him and left with the spiritual rice.

In the following days, Xu Mo took care of the hybrid rice while discussing the next research ideas with Qingzhu and others.

Now the spiritual rice seeds in the entire Canggu world can no longer be planted. If they want to continue their research, they first need to cultivate those ordinary hybrid rice into spiritual rice again.

This is a big challenge. After all, degeneration is easy but evolution is difficult. Moreover, those hybrid rices are themselves failed products of research on spiritual rice. Now it is even more difficult to cultivate them into spiritual rice again than to evolve ordinary rice.

Research in the world of cultivation is not like in the previous life, where failed products can be repaired.

What matters here is "Tao" and "Li". A failed product in the world of cultivation means that it does not conform to "Tao" and "Li". If you want it to evolve into spiritual rice again, you first need to make its existence recognized by the Tao and be able to conform to "Tao" and "Li".

Xu Mo, Qingzhu and others discussed it for several days but were at a loss.

More importantly, seeds are precious now, and we can’t just start experiments as we did before when we had some ideas. No matter whether they are right or wrong, we just have to plant them first.

They could be so arrogant before, but not now. Before the new resolution of the Cang Gu Dao League comes down, no matter what ideas they have, they can only talk about it on paper.

The Cang Gu Taoist Alliance is still very efficient. It has been seven days since the Taoist Master of the World placed the curse.

They explored every corner of the ancient world, counted all the losses, and discussed how to deal with future famine.

This is the news brought by Taoist Master Zixiao.

After Xu Mo took care of the rice in the small world for seven days, Taoist Zixiao came to the small world.

He was also informed of the Canggu Dao Alliance’s solution to the future famine among ordinary mortals in the Canggu world.

Daoist Master Zixiao glanced at Xu Mo and said with a heavy expression:

“Now, the staple food grown by ordinary farmers in the ancient world has been destroyed, and it is impossible to grow new food. Countless people will face the dilemma of having no food to eat.

Fortunately, we can still plant the rice seeds you have here, but the amount of rice you have is naturally not enough for the billions of mortals in the entire Canggu world.

For this reason, we have decided that over the next ten years, all spiritual fields under heaven, aside from a small portion planted with essential spiritual herbs and medicinal herbs, will be planted with rice grown here. Ordinary rice grown in spiritual fields can grow in as little as three months. According to our calculations, if we start with yours, planting 300 million mu of spiritual fields, harvesting a batch of seeds three months later, and immediately expanding this to the remaining spiritual fields, repeating this process until all spiritual fields in the Cang Gu World are covered, we'll be able to harvest enough rice seeds for the entire Cang Gu World in just ten years."

After listening to this, Xu Mo frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "This is indeed a quick way to solve the seed problem. The seeds are solved, but during the ten years of cultivating the seeds, what are these mortals supposed to eat?
If we don't produce food in the future, won't the food supply in the world last for ten years?"

Daoist Master Zixiao nodded, "Indeed, according to statistics from our Canggu Dao Alliance, the food in the Canggu world can only sustain all the creatures in the world for one year and three months at most. If there is no new food after this time, all the creatures in the Canggu world will starve."

"Then..." Xu Mo was about to speak when he heard this, but was interrupted by Taoist Zixiao with a wave of his hand.

Daoist Master Zixiao continued, "I know what you want to say. Regarding this, our Canggu Dao League has already discussed a solution.

We have decided to start taking out our spiritual rice reserves and providing them to mortals after one year and three months, and this will continue until the first batch of rice seeds are planted and the rice is harvested."

"Spiritual rice?" Xu Mo was a little surprised when he heard this, but wasn't the reserve of spiritual rice in the ancient world itself limited?

Daoist Master Zixiao seemed to see his confusion and explained:

"That's right, there's no problem for mortals to eat spiritual rice of the first to third grades. Not only is there no problem, but long-term consumption of spiritual rice also has many benefits for mortals.

More importantly, if ordinary mortals want to eat spiritual rice, they only need to eat a bowl of first-grade spiritual rice. Then, for the next seven days or so, they do not need to eat anything else to ensure their healthy survival.

If you change to second-grade spiritual rice, you only need less than half a bowl to have the same effect. If it is third-grade spiritual rice, you only need to eat a small bite to live for half a month while ensuring your health.

We've calculated that, given the current population of the Canggu World, we'll need to use 70% of our spiritual rice reserves to sustain the production of the first batch of food."

"Seventy percent?" Hearing this number, Xu Mo's eyes widened, and then hesitantly asked:
"With so many people, what are the monks in the world going to do? Won't anyone object?"

Daoist Master Zixiao waved his hand and said decisively, "Mortals are the foundation and future of the ancient world. If we cultivators cannot even protect the countless sentient beings in our own world, then what is the point of cultivation?
Also, if we ignore the deaths of mortals in the world today and do not care about them, it will not be long before our ancient world will become a chaotic world like the last era where the strong are respected, there is no order, and it is full of conspiracies and calculations.

Mortals are the roots, and the strong protect the weak. This is the will of the ancient world. Any opposition to this will is invalid and must be resolutely implemented! "

Hearing this, Xu Mo nodded thoughtfully. He understood what Taoist Zixiao meant. It was the will of the entire Cang Gu Taoist Alliance to provide spiritual rice to help the mortals in the world survive the famine. In this special period, any opposition would be suppressed.

The words of Zixiao Daoist Master shocked Xu Mo, and he gained a new understanding of the responsibilities and obligations of cultivators in this world.

You must know that the situation of the Cang Gu cultivation world itself is very bad now. The spiritual rice that was planted has been destroyed, and it is still unknown whether new spiritual rice can be produced in the future.

Under these conditions, 70% of the spiritual rice reserves will be used, and in the next ten years all spiritual fields will be used to grow ordinary rice unless necessary.

The purpose is to prevent ordinary mortals from going hungry and experiencing famine.

Being able to make this decision shows that they are truly practicing the idea that mortals are the roots.

However, he still had a doubt in his heart, so he asked, "Are our Dao Masters unable to use magical powers such as time acceleration?"

He was indeed very curious. You know, the Taoist Qingxuan had said calmly before that he had salvaged his destroyed hometown world from the long river of time and space.

If that’s the case, then it can’t be that he can’t even accelerate time, right?
Daoist Master Zixiao shook his head and sighed softly, saying, "It's OK outside the Canggu World, but within the Canggu World, the power of time is forbidden. Otherwise, we wouldn't have to do this."

Xu Mo was slightly startled and was about to say let's go outside, but then he realized that because of the curse, the creatures in the ancient world could not eat food from the outside world.

Previously, Taoist Zixiao only said that cultivators could not eat spiritual rice from the outside world. Now that the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance has made this decision, it is estimated that they have conducted experiments, which show that the curse is also effective on ordinary creatures, making them unable to eat food from the outside world.

After Daoist Zixiao and Xu Mo talked about these things, they left.

His main purpose of coming here was to take a look at the hybrid rice here. After seeing with his own eyes the rice that was surviving well, he left with peace of mind.

As the rotating supreme leader of the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance, he still has a lot of things to deal with.

Before he left, Xu Mo handed him a jade slip, on which was the theory of hybrid rice technology that he had compiled, along with previous experimental data.

He gave it to Taoist Master Zixiao in the hope that the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance would spread it and allow more spiritual plant masters to participate in the research of this theory.

This was a decision he made after careful consideration. If it were in the past, he would definitely not do this, but now the situation in the ancient world is serious, and he himself has no good ideas for the next research.

In this case, it would be better to spread the word and allow more spiritual plant masters to participate in this research.

Compared with solving the current dilemma of the ancient world, one's personal achievements and reputation seem insignificant.

Moreover, doing so itself does not affect his achievements. Even if someone else develops hybrid rice based on this theory in the future, he will also benefit from it.

After all, he was the first person in the world to propose this theory.

After Dao Zun Zixiao learned the contents of the jade slip, he looked at him with a moving expression. He then reached out and gently patted his shoulder, saying with a relieved tone, "Good boy."

After that, he left without saying anything more.

Time passed slowly, and soon the hybrid rice planted in the small world matured. After Xu Mo and his team harvested it, they replanted it. However, this batch of harvested seeds was not enough to plant all the 300 million acres of spiritual fields in the small world. It was not until another mature harvest that all the 300 million acres of spiritual fields in the small world were planted.

After the 300 million mu of spiritual fields were planted with hybrid rice, Xu Mo left the small world and returned to Wuyou Peak.

But he had just come out of the small world and had not taken a few steps when he smelled a faint fragrance in the air.

Xu Mo sniffed and felt that the smell was a little familiar.

After thinking for a moment, he realized, isn't this the taste of spiritual rice?
However, all the spiritual rice in the world is now collected and controlled by the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance. Each cultivator can only receive a small amount every year. What’s more important is that the time to collect the first batch has not yet arrived.

How come I can still smell the scent of spiritual rice in Wuyou Peak?
Could it be that someone is hiding something?
Thinking of this, Xu Mo suddenly became anxious and hurried towards the source of the fragrance.

Then he discovered that the fragrance came from Ou Fenjin's kitchen, and at that moment a group of disciples were happily eating a bowl of fragrant-looking spiritual rice.

"It's so delicious. I haven't tasted spiritual rice in a long time."

"Yeah, I didn't feel anything when I ate it every day before, but now that I haven't eaten it for such a long time, I realized that the most delicious thing in the world is nothing but a bowl of fragrant rice."

"Yeah, I just discovered that rice can be so delicious. It makes me so greedy. I guess Uncle Ou Fenjin has a solution."

"Of course not. You should know that Uncle Ou Fenjin is the official chef of our Wuyou Peak. It is said that the Peak Master personally went to another Dao Realm to bring him back."

Xu Mo listened to the discussion of his disciples with a puzzled look on his face. Could it be that Ou Fenjin had secretly hidden the spiritual rice?
However, it was rare for the disciples to enjoy their meal so much, so he did not disturb their interest. Instead, he quietly found Ou Fenjin and asked him the questions in his heart.

Ou Fenjin brought a bowl of rice and said mysteriously, "Master, you'll know after you eat it."

Xu Mo didn't get angry when he saw his mysterious look. He picked up the rice and took a bite.

Isn’t this just ordinary spiritual rice?

Huh? No, then he realized the problem.

The taste of the spiritual rice here is a little different from that of ordinary spiritual rice, and the spiritual energy content is relatively low. Even compared with the most ordinary spiritual rice, it is 50% less.

"What is this?" Xu Mo looked at Ou Fenjin and asked in confusion.

Ou Fenjin chuckled, "These are actually spiritual bamboo shoots. I used a special technique to make them look like rice, and they taste pretty much the same."

(End of this chapter)