My cultivation is too warm

Chapter 161 I still like it as before
Xu Mo originally thought that since there were cases in his previous life, the research on bamboo rice should be smooth.

However, when we actually started the experiment, we found that it was not that simple and was full of difficulties.

There are a lot of spiritual bamboos, and bamboo spiritual plants were basically unaffected by this curse incident.

The first problem is that bamboo takes a long time to bloom. Ordinary bamboo takes decades to bloom, not to mention spiritual bamboo.

Even a first-grade spiritual bamboo would take hundreds of years to enter its flowering cycle.

It can be said that it is really difficult to find a blooming spiritual bamboo at once.

Later, Xu Mo thought of a solution. He remembered that bamboo usually blooms when it is about to end its life cycle.

Especially when the land is dry, bamboo is most likely to bloom when it withers.

So they artificially created drought conditions for some sacred bamboos, causing them to wither and then bloom.

This time they all chose first-grade spiritual bamboo and did not choose grass bamboo.

The reason is simple, because bamboo shoots are generally treated as weeds and are removed as soon as they grow out. They searched a long way but did not find a mature bamboo shoot nearby.

So he gave up and chose ordinary first-grade spiritual bamboo, artificially creating a flowering period.

After the spiritual bamboo bloomed, they encountered another problem.

That is, ordinary rice and spiritual bamboo cannot pollinate each other because their life levels are different. The rice pollen is swallowed up as soon as it meets the spiritual bamboo pollen.

This made Xu Mo and the others who saw this scene stare in amazement and just stood there in a daze.

Only then did they realize that they had made such a common sense mistake.

Perhaps the spiritual rice can pollinate each other with the spiritual bamboo.

But the key point is that their research is intended to produce spiritual rice.

If there were spiritual rice, there would be no need to go through so much trouble.

Today they only have ordinary rice.

The experiment was stumped just at the first step, which made Xu Mo and the others feel particularly melancholy. Could it be that they really had to cultivate the spiritual rice first?

However, they have not yet found a practical way to cultivate ordinary rice into magical rice.

There are many such cases in the cultivation world, but now because the curse has tampered with and distorted the spiritual foundation of the spiritual plants, all the previous cultivation methods are no longer applicable.

At a loss, many people were ready to give up. After all, they couldn't even pollinate, so further experiments were not carried out at all.

However, Xu Mo was not reconciled. He thought of the grass bamboo, a kind of ordinary bamboo that was between spiritual plants and ordinary plants and was half a step away from reaching the peak of perfection.

However, he was unable to find any mature bamboo plants around him that could produce a flowering period.

So Biao found the sect and asked them to help see if they could collect it.

The Tianxuan Sect attached great importance to his research. As soon as he asked for help, Tianyuanzi, the seventh-level Hedao master, personally issued an announcement to the entire Taixuan Continent.

It is said that the research on Wuyou Lingnong has encountered difficulties and requires mature grass bamboo that is more than a hundred years old.

After the announcement was issued, Xu Mo had a new understanding of his influence.

Not long after Tian Yuanzi issued the announcement, countless people contacted Wuyou Peak through various channels, saying that they knew where to find adult grass bamboo.

Among these people were elders and disciples from other main branches of the Tianxuan Sect, as well as from other sects in the Taixuan Continent. Moreover, not just one, but thousands or even tens of thousands of people from these sects contacted the Tianxuan Sect or Wuyou Peak.

Xu Mo was so busy that he was dizzy. In short, he couldn't respond, absolutely couldn't respond.

He was very depressed about the situation before him. He looked at Tian Yuanzi, who caused all this, with some resentment and asked:
"Since our own disciples have clues, why don't we ask them first, instead of directly issuing an announcement?"

Facing his resentful eyes, Tian Yuanzi coughed lightly and replied with an erratic expression:
"First of all, I really don't know where to find mature bamboo shoots, so when you came to me for help, I really couldn't answer your question.

Secondly, if we officially announce this to the public, wouldn't it show how much the sect values ​​you?"

After hearing Tian Yuanzi's answer, Xu Mo rolled his eyes and finally understood why the sect would let him, a seventh-level Hedao Venerable, be in charge of presiding over the recruitment meeting.

Because he is a stubborn person and can't think flexibly, he can naturally ensure the fairness of the conference.

Faced with so many enthusiastic messages, Xu Mo could only helplessly ask Tian Yuanzi to issue another announcement to tell them that Cao Zhu had been found.

And let him say something on his own behalf, because everyone was so enthusiastic and there were so many people providing clues, he really couldn't reply to everyone one by one. He could only say sorry for this and thank everyone for their enthusiastic help. He would definitely do his best and devote himself to the research, produce results as soon as possible, and help everyone out of the predicament.

Later, under the guidance of a Tianxuan Sect disciple, Xu Mo, Qingzhu and others went deep into a mountain range and found a patch of mature bamboo.

For the convenience of the experiment, they directly transplanted this patch of bamboo into the small world, and then artificially created a flowering period.

This time the result finally did not disappoint them.

Among hundreds of rice varieties, more than ten varieties successfully pollinated with bamboo, which made Xu Mo and his team overjoyed.

As for the rest of the species, the results were the same as before, and they were devoured by the pollen of the grass bamboo.

After discovering this situation, Xu Mo immediately asked them to record the more than ten varieties that were successfully pollinated.

Since the pollen of other species would be swallowed but they were able to succeed, it meant that those more than ten species were very likely to be close to the level of spiritual plants, just like the grass bamboo, but they had not shown it and had not been discovered by them.

When cultivating spiritual rice in the future, perhaps we can start with these more than ten varieties.

It can be said that this successful pollination directly brought them two good news.

Experiments on bamboo rice can be carried out, and experiments on the evolutionary cultivation of ordinary rice can also be carried out.

This made everyone very excited, as if they saw the dawn of victory.

Then I couldn't wait to start the experiment.

And this time, they directly carried out the two experiments at the same time, thinking that even if only one of the two experiments was successful, it would be acceptable.

Xu Mo and the others all believed that this experiment had a good chance of success, and everyone was eagerly looking forward to the experimental results.

But when the final result came out, it slapped them hard in the face.

Facts told them that it was too early to be happy.

They managed to grow bamboo rice. After going through all kinds of difficulties and extracting a special juice from some spiritual plants, they successfully made the bamboo rice seeds take root and sprout, grow into seedlings, and produce rice ears.

But just like the previous hybrid rice, the rice they produced was not magical rice, but ordinary rice. As for the cultivation of the more than ten varieties of hybrid rice they had previously marked and recorded, it was not going smoothly either.

No matter how many times they experimented and tried, no matter how many methods they tried, the rice was always one step away from evolving into spiritual rice, and they could not make any further breakthroughs.

Five years passed, and both experiments were stuck at the stage of evolving ordinary rice into spiritual rice.

After long-term, high-intensity and stressful experiments, even those who were practitioners became haggard and in a bad mental state, but they still failed to obtain good results.

This made everyone feel bad, and the atmosphere in the entire small world was very heavy.

On this day, they paused their experiments and walked out of the small world.

It’s not that they want to give up, but according to Cang Gu’s arrangement, during these ten years, every cultivator needs to go to the mortal world and take turns feeding ordinary people.

This was the decision made by the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance before, to use 70% of the spiritual rice in the Cang Gu cultivation world to help mortals get through the period of cultivating rice seeds.

Since it is spiritual rice, it naturally needs to be prepared by practitioners and sent to mortals, rather than being given to them directly.

And the monks are required to watch them eat it on the spot and not take it back to avoid any shady things happening.

The ancient world is so big and there are so many mortals, so it is necessary to send many cultivators to do this.

But we are all practitioners and need to practice, so it is naturally impossible to always arrange the same group of people to do this kind of thing.

Therefore, it was decided that each major sect would be responsible for an area based on proximity, and the disciples of the sect would take turns to do this task.

As spiritual plant masters, Xu Mo and his colleagues are responsible for overcoming the problem of spiritual rice production. According to the resolution of the Cang Gu Taoist Alliance, they do not need to be responsible for these matters.

But Xu Mo saw that everyone was frowning because the experiment was not going well, and they had not been able to find any new ideas recently.

So I thought of arranging for everyone to deliver the meal together and relax at the same time.

After he submitted his application to the sect, the sect quickly agreed and arranged a date for them.

In this way, Xu Mo and others took the spiritual rice and dispersed to the cities near Tianxuan Sect to cook for the mortals.

Xu Mo and his team of several hundred people arrived at a city with spiritual rice and felt that the whole city was particularly quiet.

It was so quiet, like a dead city.

When he saw this scene, he thought it was the result of the previous group of disciples exercising high-pressure control over the people in the city.

After all, whenever famine strikes, there will always be unrest, and high-pressure control is also a normal practice.

But after he had the handover with those disciples, he found that it was not the case.

Because even after he came, the people in the city were quiet, no one was making noise, and few people were talking.

After they prepared the spiritual rice, they began to line up to get the food consciously. There was no fighting or scrambling, and everything was in order.

And Xu Mo found that when they were getting their meals, their expressions did not look very happy, but rather a little uneasy.

This puzzled him, and he couldn't help but pull an elderly man aside and ask, "Auntie, why do you seem unhappy? Is it because we haven't done something right? Or has a cultivator previously behaved unkindly towards you? If that's the case, tell me, and I'll report it to the sect and seek justice for you."

After hearing what he said, the old man quickly shook his head and said, "No, no, no, no, no one bullied us."

"Then how..." Xu Mo looked at her with a puzzled expression.

Seeing this, the old man shook his hands, sighed deeply and said:

"You are not mean to us, but you are too good to us. You are so good to us that we don't know what to do. It makes us feel guilty!

We have heard that it is already difficult for you practitioners. This spiritual rice is not enough for yourselves, and you may not be able to produce spiritual rice in the future.

In the end, for our sake, he still took out the spiritual rice, which was already scarce, and gave it to us mortals to eat.

I have been eating it for more than ten years.

Tell me, what should we do when you do this? We are just ordinary mortals, and we can't help you in any way, but we have to bear so much of your kindness.

People are all made of flesh and blood, and no one likes to receive favors from others all the time, especially when they know there is no way to repay them.

But if we don’t eat the spiritual rice you gave us, then we won’t be able to survive.”

As he spoke, he choked up and said, "We are really useless. The only thing we can do is try not to cause you any trouble."

Xu Mo understood. He could understand this feeling. Love that is too heavy can sometimes make people feel depressed and uneasy, especially when they are powerless.

Everyone has heard about what is happening in the cultivation world and knows what has happened. Therefore, when they bring spiritual rice, they feel uneasy and take the initiative to maintain order.

No wonder the city is so quiet. They are probably afraid that if it is too noisy, it will cause trouble for them.

Xu Mo originally wanted to say that it was the duty of those who practice cultivation to protect mortals, and that there was no need for everyone to do so, and that they could just relax a little to comfort them.

But when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he suddenly realized that if he said that, it might not only fail to comfort them, but would make them feel even worse.

After all, nothing in the world is as it should be.

Thinking of this, he stopped talking and silently did the things at hand, serving them food and watching them finish eating.

After finishing the matter here and returning to Wuyou Peak, Xu Mo found that the situation here was similar. The entire Wuyou Peak was dead and lifeless, without any vitality.

Everyone practiced silently and did their own things, and no one seemed to want to cause trouble to others at this time.

Xu Mo felt a little uncomfortable seeing this scene. He still liked the Wuyou Peak that was full of energy and everyone was laughing and playing.

Although some things have happened now, life still needs to go on.

Things are already difficult, so shouldn't we cheer ourselves up and be happy at this time?

After taking a walk around Wuyou Peak, Xu Mo felt that he needed to do something to boost everyone's morale and make them happy.

Instead of being lifeless and dull like now, he was worried that if they continued to practice like this, everyone would develop inner demons.

　Thanks to [Ancient Star Domain] for the reward, thank you.

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