Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 33 Germination
Everyone was toasting each other and having a great time.

Ji An put down his wine glass and said:
"Senior Brother Zhang is currently cultivating in Moya Mountain. I wonder how advanced his cultivation has become."

Moya Mountain is a first-grade, top-grade spiritual vein, and it must be rich in spiritual energy. A cultivator can quickly improve his cultivation just by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Cultivating immortals requires Dharma, companions, wealth, and land. Having a Taoist temple with rich spiritual energy can greatly speed up the improvement of cultivation.

Chu He swallowed the meat in his mouth and said with a smile:
"Senior Brother Zhang advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining within two months of arriving at Moya Mountain, and is now preparing to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining."

His tone lowered and he sighed:
“It wasn’t long since I advanced to the fifth level of Qi Refining, and there’s no hope for me to catch up with my senior brother in this lifetime.

On the other hand, Senior Sister Zhao has advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining, which is cause for celebration."

Zhao Mengyao smiled and said modestly:
"I advanced by chance."

Chu He scratched his head and said with a wry smile:

“My talent for weapon refining is average. Perhaps when the sect’s three-year assessment comes, I will have to leave the weapon refining hall and become a fighting cultivator who relies on hunting monsters to make a living.

I just feel ashamed of my family's upbringing, and I don't know how to repay them in the future."

Everyone fell silent; this topic was cruel.

The three-year assessment for new disciples is very important, especially for new disciples in the Equipment Refining Hall and the Beast Taming Hall. If they fail the assessment, they will have to leave the hall.

Fighting monks do not engage in production and can only obtain contribution points for their own practice by accepting sect missions or hunting monsters.

In terms of safety, it is far less safe than staying in the sect and practicing peacefully.

Wei Songnian laughed, and after noticing that everyone's attention was drawn to him, he said:
"Junior brother, I have something to say, just listen to it."

Chu He bowed:

"Please teach me, senior brother."

"Weapon refining requires talent. If you have confirmed that you don't have the talent, then give it up as soon as possible and avoid being indecisive.

There are still two years before the sect assessment. During this period, I will only complete the tasks assigned to me, and use the rest of the time to improve my cultivation and practice attack and defense spells.

I was also once assigned to the Weapon Refining Hall by my family. After six months in the sect, I accepted the fact that I was not talented enough and chose a path that suited me better. Now I am doing pretty well."

This was a bit of a deep statement, but Wei Songnian said it anyway, thinking that having more friends means having more paths.

Refiners with poor talent need more practice to catch up with everyone else, but the upper limit of their growth is very low, and there are many who have been refining for many years but are still not as good as spiritual farmers.

Maybe it would be easier to change the track.

"Thank you for your frank words, Senior Brother. I will think about it carefully when I get back."

Chu He nodded slightly. He had recently been considering whether it was worthwhile to continue. After listening to what the other party said today, his wavering heart finally made up its mind.

Zhao Mengyao changed the subject and everyone began to discuss cultivation.

Although everyone's practice methods are different, the collision of each other's thoughts has brought benefits to everyone present.

This is the "Lü" in Dharma, Lü, Caidi. A person's thinking will be more or less limited. By communicating and learning from fellow practitioners, listening to the advice of teachers, and drawing inferences from one instance to another, perhaps at some inadvertent moment, the problems that have troubled you for many days will suddenly become clear.

After drinking, both the host and the guests were in great joy.

Ji An signaled Wei Songnian to stay while he saw off the others.

"Junior brother, what else?"

Ji An took out two spirit stones and ordered 2 spirit crystals, and pushed them to the other party:

"Eight more Jade Pills."

As I said, there is no value in keeping spirit stones in hand. If there is no special need, he will spend every spirit crystal.

"Junior brother, you don't even save a single spirit stone. What if you run into an emergency?"

Wei Songnian laughed, but still took out the pills swiftly. It was not his style to not make money from the crystals.

"If you encounter an emergency, ask me to borrow some money. Don't refuse when the time comes." "Haha, no problem," Wei Songnian nodded.

After exchanging for the elixir, Ji An rode the talisman bird to the General Affairs Hall.

Arriving at the General Affairs Hall, he happened to find Li Changfeng on duty. He walked up to him and greeted him:
"Brother Li, excuse me for disturbing you.

I'm here to exchange for some Spiritual Valley seeds and Talisman Grass seeds, as well as the Qingyuan Sutra's mid-stage Qi Refining Technique."

Li Changfeng's eyes lit up and he smiled:

"Junior Brother Ji is a rare guest, it's rare to see you.

Congratulations, Junior Brother, for breaking through to the fourth level of Qi Refining in just one year. You are truly outstanding among this batch of Spiritual Farmers disciples."

You haven't seen Senior Brother Liu Yu. He should be almost at the eighth level of Qi Refining.

Ji An laughed, handed over the jade token, and said:
"Four mu of spiritual grain seeds and one mu of talisman grass seeds."

Li Changfeng took the jade token, found the corresponding jade slip and grain seeds, weighed them, and swiped them on the spirit plate:
"Spiritual Valley Seeds: 16 contribution points, Talisman Grass Seeds: 8 contribution points, Qingyuan Sutra Formula: 50 contribution points, Junior Brother still has 6 contribution points available."

"Thank you, senior brother."

Ji An took the jade slip and the grain seeds and asked:
"Brother, I'm curious, how many contribution points are needed to redeem the formula for the Perfection-level Planting Spell?"

Although magic is divided into five levels: entry, mastery, minor success, achievement, and perfection, perfection is not the end.

The Tao is boundless, and dividing it into the realm of perfection simply means that the understanding of magic has entered a whole new realm.

Li Changfeng laughed and shook his head:
“The sect doesn’t have any techniques related to the perfection level, at least I haven’t seen any.

If the spells at the great success level are still in the category of magic, then the spells at the perfection level are skills that are close to the Tao.

The secrets of the perfect level can only be understood but not explained, and the insights cannot be stored in jade slips.

However, I have heard that there is a kind of jade slip that can record insights, but I don’t know whether it is true or not.

Even if there were such a jade slip, it wouldn't record the planting spell."

There is no magic formula to refer to, Ji An was quite disappointed.

This means that he can only make progress by spending more spiritual energy and more time and mana.

After planting the Linggu Talisman Grass, Ji An practiced magic and prepared talisman ink, and his life was simple and fulfilling.

In the small courtyard, the spiritual energy contained in the vegetables is getting higher and higher. One day, this place will be cultivated into a first-level spiritual field.

He took a Jade Pill every four days, and his cultivation improved rapidly over two months.

However, with Shigui, a tenant who plucked feathers from a passing goose, his progress speed can barely be considered average among the disciples of the fourth level of Qi Refining.

Three months later.

Harvest the Linggu talisman grass and make it into talisman paper.

Ji An went to the General Affairs Hall to pay the land rent and taxes. The tax on the talisman grass was the same as that on the spiritual grain, and he exchanged it for seeds to be planted in the next season.

After so many days of hard work, all he had in his hands were 200 kilograms of yellow rice, 3 spirit stones, 10 spirit crystals, and some talisman paper and ink.

These gains barely gave him enough crystals to buy elixirs for cultivation. He still had to save up 200 contribution points to buy spell jade slips, but that seemed a distant prospect.

Sow the seeds, release the thick soil technique, and the seeds fall into the soil.

Ji An performed the Xiaoyunyu technique normally, and he felt as if he had fallen into a mysterious and ethereal state.

White mist gathered madly in front of him. In the blink of an eye, a cloud of mist covered the entire spiritual field, and excess mist was formed, and spiritual rain fell.

There is a unique scent in the rain, which makes people's minds unconsciously immersed in the silver rain lines, as if sinking into a beautiful dream.

When the clouds and mist dissipated, Ji An's mind returned, and he saw tender green sprouts appearing in the spiritual field that he had just planted.

Damn, it used to take a day or two for them to sprout!
(End of this chapter)