Symbiotic panel, I am cultivating immortality in the world of immortality

Chapter 220 So it was a granary!
for this matter.

Even Chen Mo couldn't offer any advice.

A thousand people have a thousand ways.

Moreover, he failed the most basic test of "Nine Songs: Lady Xiang" at the time—he was unable to understand the devout offerings of people and the distant gaze of the gods across time.

Because he believed in the great power that all things return to themselves.

"That's fine."

However, Li Ye didn't want to get the answer. He just felt a little confused, but it was only for a moment. He would still try to find the answer later.

"I always felt that the answer was very, very close to me, and I even saw a building that could be called the answer before."

The third senior brother gave Li Ye a strange look.

The building containing the answer?

Have we met before?
Even with his extensive experience, Chen Mo was momentarily confused about what Li Ye was talking about.

"I'll go back and think about it carefully!"

"Besides, building houses can't stop, can it?"

Li Ye bid farewell to his third senior brother and returned to Dongcang Town to continue his house-building trial.

Time always flies when you're immersed in trials.

In the blink of an eye, autumn has passed and winter has arrived, and the seasons have changed.

It was already the summer of the following year.

"Brother Ye!"

Suddenly, a strapping young man with his shirt off rushed over excitedly.

This was the young man surnamed Du who had previously offered to help him cultivate the land. He had indeed helped him a great deal, after all, he was now just a somewhat thin mortal named Li Ye.

"What happened, Brother Du?"

Li Ye looked up from his book. He was still wearing simple clothes, and under the bright white sunlight of summer, his originally fair skin had turned a wheatish hue.

It has diluted much of that sickly or aloof demeanor, and the person seems much better than they did a year ago.

"The Jade Fragrant Melon is ripe!"

Brother Du was overjoyed: "Governor Yang is already waiting over there, saying he wants us all to go pick melons!"

Although the Jade Fragrant Melon has been bound and modified by Li Ye, it still has to follow the laws of natural growth. Moreover, it is the main food source for this group of pioneers.

So it's normal for Brother Du to be so excited.

This is their first harvest on this land.

As long as there are crops to grow and harvest, they can always survive. They don't want to keep receiving food from the Four Seasons Sect. It's normal for them to be able to grow their own produce.

And now they're ripe.

No wonder he was so happy and in such a hurry.

"Oh!"

Li Ye immediately stood up with a smile: "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go quickly!"

"Let's go!"

The two immediately left, one after the other.

Following the newly built road, we soon arrived at the field where the Jade Fragrant Melon was planted—a field of 300 acres, densely planted with white jade-colored melons.

It stands out conspicuously against the dark earth.

Around these melons were small holes, where some little creatures were cautiously peeking out.

It was a spirit beast with short, thick limbs that looked almost like a dog, and stripes on its back that were identical to those on a jade melon.

They are... badger.

【Name】：Jade Fragrant Badger

[Feelings]: Vigilant, anxious, reluctant
[Status]: The badger that lives in the fields of Jade Fragrant Melon. They help people harvest Jade Fragrant Melon and can also help people extract the seeds of Jade Fragrant Melon for secondary processing, but they must pay one-tenth of the income.

[Already bound]: Jade Melon

Brother Du stood next to Li Ye and whispered to him, "We've been farming with them all year, and they've done a better job than us."

Shouldn't they get a share of the harvest?

I wonder if the garrison commander of Yang Town would be willing to give them some.

Li Ye looked at Yang Sha, who was standing at the edge of the ground and looked no different from a living person, and nodded: "They will definitely get a share."

The words fell.

Whether it was because Yang Sha heard his voice or not, he raised his head and said loudly, "You guys eat first, and while you're at it, help us collect the food too!"

—These words were spoken to the jade-scented badgers that lived in the fields.

"Haw!"

The eyes of the jade-scented hedgehogs lit up instantly.

They emerged from their respective burrows and began picking the fully ripe Yu Xiang melons one by one. They carried some of the plumpest ones into their burrows, while placing the rest directly on the ridges of the field.

Although they were only first-tier spirit beasts at the Qi Refining level, their speed was still quite fast. They moved through the fields so fast that they seemed to leave afterimages, and soon they had picked and put away all the Jade Fragrant Melons from these hundreds of acres of land.

Then they ran in an orderly fashion to the irrigation ditch next to the field, stretched out their short, thick claws and carefully washed themselves in the water. After thoroughly cleaning themselves, they returned to the place where the sweet melons were placed.

They gazed at the distant carnage as if waiting for something.

"quick!"

Yang Sha commanded, "Install the waterway!"

Give an order.

Immediately, townspeople placed objects that looked like miniature waterways carved from jade on the ground, and the jade waterways instantly expanded, lying right across the field ridge.

After the riverbed was prepared, the jade melons began their work. With a gentle tap of their clean, short, and stubby claws, the jade melon immediately cracked open.

Square pieces of melon flesh fell out from inside.

The melon flesh is bright red, dripping with drops of sweet-smelling juice that whets the appetite. The summer heat seems to be diluted by the aroma of the juice at this moment.

The melon flesh flowed along the Jade River, where it was collected by the waiting townspeople in bamboo baskets and transported back to the town by horse-drawn carts.

After the melon flesh is dried, it only needs to be soaked in water to immediately restore its original appearance. In winter when there are no fresh vegetables, or when you are out, you can soak a few pieces of melon and enjoy delicious melon.

After the pieces of melon flesh were taken away, the jade-scented badgers didn't stop. They stretched out their claws and rummaged inside the melons, quickly pulling out handfuls of rice-grain-sized watermelon seeds that had a jade-like color.

Although they are called watermelon seeds, they are actually very long and thin.

It looks exactly like a grain of rice.

This is the "Yuxiang Rice" from Yuxiang Melon. It tastes no different from real rice, or rather, it is even chewier and stickier.

Similar to glutinous rice.

The Jade Fragrant Badgers took out the Jade Fragrant Rice, most of which was carried along the Jade River to a distant place where it was stored in the granary by the people who had been waiting. However, a small portion was left aside. After a while, a group of people came running over with stone mortars with flint and tinder boxes embedded in the bottom, and put all the Jade Fragrant Rice into the mortars.

After being placed in the mortar, the flint that was burning at the bottom of the mortar slowly enveloped the entire mortar. No water was needed, and the rice was steamed in no time by the heat.

As the lid of the mortar was opened.

Visible white mist, accompanied by an extremely overpowering fragrance, instantly spread around with the wind.

Some strong and healthy young men had already prepared themselves and stood by the mortar with stone hammers in hand.

Brother Du stretched his limbs and patted Li Ye on the shoulder: "You don't need to go. I'll bring you some hot food later!"

"Row."

Li Ye watched him walk toward the nearest stone mortar, where they began to pound the freshly steamed rice with stone hammers, accompanied by shouts of "Heave-ho, heave-ho."

As the fragrant rice was pounded with the stone hammer, it gradually became soft yet incredibly elastic, until the individual grains were no longer visible and instead all melted together into a single mass.

It's like pounding glutinous rice cakes, but the fragrant rice doesn't stick to the stone mortar at all. Instead, the slowly burning flames at the bottom of the mortar leave burn marks on the gradually forming large pieces of glutinous rice cakes.

The children stood longingly beside the stone mortar, watching the glutinous rice cakes inside. Whenever this happened, the young men responsible for pounding the rice would scoop out a large piece and hand it to the children.

The children ate while their hands felt hot from the heat, their faces full of satisfaction.

Li Ye wanted to try it, but he wasn't a child, so he couldn't just squat down next to the stone mortar and wait to eat.

Fortunately, the understanding Yu Xiangcha snatched a large piece from the child's hand, stood up, and chirped at Li Ye, eager to offer him the glutinous rice cake.

"..."

Li Ye glanced at the tearful child whose glutinous rice cake had been snatched away, pretended not to see it, silently took the glutinous rice cake, and slowly chewed it.

It has a wonderful texture.

With a slightly charred crispness from being scorched by flames, and a chewy texture amidst its softness, its natural sweetness is irresistible even without the addition of soybean powder or sugar.

Or rather, Li Ye actually found this natural flavor quite appealing.

He'd eaten plenty of good food, so this was a pleasant surprise for him.

It's a fragrant melon.

This special spiritual plant itself has a high sugar content, and when necessary, it can even solidify into Jade Fragrance Sugar through the sedimentation of its juice—its juice, fruit pulp, and melon seeds are all treasures.

It's no wonder that the townspeople of Dongcang Town chose this spiritual plant as their main crop.

Li Ye breathed a soft sigh of relief.

He swallowed the last bite of glutinous rice cake, then took an even larger piece from Brother Du and ate it slowly, gazing into the distance.

He saw the undisguised joy on the faces of these mortals who had traveled thousands of miles from the heart of the Four Seasons Sect; he saw the joy brought by the harvest.

He felt the glass bracelet on his wrist tremble slightly, and wisps of pure spiritual energy flowed into his body through his skin.

He could also see the Jade Fragrant Badgers burying some of their own Jade Fragrant Melon seeds, mixed with their own blood, deep in the soil.

At that moment, he even felt a sense of anticipation for the autumn harvest.

then……

Sunrise and sunset, summer goes and autumn comes.

It seems like just a moment ago we were harvesting Jade Fragrant Melons, and the next moment it's time to harvest Dawn Rice and Potato Dragons.

—Of course, there is also Xiguang rice in the fields of Dongcang Town, and in the water of the rice fields, there are also some small sweet potato dragons swimming freely in the fields.

Compared to the special crop of Yuxiang melon, the townspeople clearly had much more anticipation for the golden rice that grew like tall trees and exuded a gentle warmth.

Wow! These rice ears are huge!

"What are you planning to do when you get home, steam a few batches for the little ones?"

"Of course, we should eat our fill!"

The adults chatted as they diligently harvested the rice with sickles, while the children, barefoot, scooped up tiny sweet potato gnats in the paddy fields, which were unlikely to escape. They then loaded their harvest onto their carts in groups, waiting to transport it back home.

Laughter and cheerful voices filled the fields.

not far away.

Li Ye still stood quietly outside the field, his hands behind his back, the warm autumn sun shining on him, making him look as radiant as a god.

This time, however, it was calamity that was beside him.

"A real person."

Aren't you going to harvest it?

Yang Sha's eyes reflected Li Ye's figure: "You seem to have been thinking about something, from spring to autumn—can you tell me about it?"

Having survived the ordeal of rebirth and frequently dealing with the town's complicated affairs, he had long since lost the resentment of "Yangsha" and was no different from an ordinary person, even showing a hint of fatigue on his face.

"I'm thinking about what kind of houses could be shared by cultivators and mortals."

Li Ye said very honestly, "You should know that I am practicing my path and cultivating the methods of Lady Xiang."

I used to think that houses and temples—buildings needed by both mortals and deities—were a passageway connecting them, but now I think I was wrong.

Mortals need to eat, gods need incense offerings, and even we cultivators need enough spiritual food to fill the void of our spiritual energy.

The Four Seasons School of Taoism has never mentioned fasting.

These words were truly beyond Yang Sha's comprehension. He blinked in confusion, "So, do you understand now?"

"of course."

"That's the granary!"

Li Ye had completely figured it out by now.

No wonder he always felt some strange thoughts in his heart, because he had seen the granary in the sect, surrounded by countless starlight, during the autumn harvest a long, long time ago!
That ancient granary!
Now he can confirm that the granary was built using the construction method recorded in "Xiang Lady," and has gradually become more powerful over time.

The houses that both humans and gods need, and the passageways that connect them, are undoubtedly granaries.

But the problem is, how do we build a granary?

Why don't we just grow a granary?

In an instant, the spiritual plants within the sect that could serve as granaries flashed through his mind, but weren't they all too ordinary?

If he's going to do something, he'll do it the best.

What other spiritual plants can serve as a granary?

He squinted as he thought, and suddenly remembered Yuan Yan, a Daoist from the Yuan Sheng Lu clan whom he had helped before.

Could we obtain the seeds or branches of that carefree spiritual city from him?

With a little modification and binding, I created a tree granary that not only grew stronger with the supernatural powers of "Xiang Lady," but also gradually developed its own spirituality and even divinity.

Only in this way can it be challenging.

He rarely felt a stirring in his heart—it was excitement. Once the granary was completed, perhaps his understanding of "Xiang Lady" would be fully realized.

He decided to go back and see Yuan Yan, the Daoist he hadn't seen for a while but who sent him spirit stones every month.

(End of this chapter)