I awakened the cultivation panel.

Chapter 4 Moonlight Dew
Chen Wenjie is the youngest son of his uncle's family, four years younger than Chen Jingle. He attended a vocational school and started working early.

I now work as a pastry chef at a chain bakery in the city.

In the early years when the economy was good, he worked in the catering department of a hotel, but now the economy is generally declining and even five-star hotels are setting up stalls, so he was inevitably laid off.

I finally got into this store by asking someone for help.

Chen Wenjie takes it all in stride: "I'll just take it one day at a time."

Anyway, he doesn't have a girlfriend or any pressure from mortgage or car loan. After get off work every day, he plays either Peace Elite or Honor of Kings, and occasionally goes out for a late-night snack with friends.

His two older sisters had already gotten married, and his family was pressuring him to stay married, so he just kept saying "yes, yes, yes" and putting it off.

Besides, we still have our older brother Chen Jingle to support us.

"What is it?"

Chen Jingle asked with a smile.

Chen Wenjie held up a banana high, grinning, "My dad just cut these bananas, he asked me to give you two bunches! But they'll have to sit for a couple of days before you can eat them!"

In the countryside, almost every household grows some fruit trees, just of different types.

Chen Jingle's family has a large area and grows a lot, while his uncle's family has limited open space and mainly grows bananas, longans, and wampee.

There used to be a pigsty there, but it was abandoned later.

So Grandpa and Uncle planted fruit trees all around the area, and the fertile soil made them grow incredibly well.

As Chen Wenjie approached, he immediately expressed his disgust: "Why do you smell so strongly of sweat?"

At this moment, Chen Jingle's image is far from good.

He was shirtless, his hair was messy and wet with sweat, and he smelled sour. He looked disheveled and quite miserable.

"Thanks!"

After taking the bananas, Chen Jingle smiled helplessly and said, "I cleared the weeds in the orchard this afternoon."

As he spoke, he showed off the blisters on his hands.

Chen Wenjie was taken aback and clicked his tongue. After a pause, he said, "Want to go for late-night snacks? I'll invite Li Guangming. He doesn't know you're back yet."

Li Guangming is the son of his aunt's younger sister. He was born in the same year as Chen Wenjie. They went to junior high school and vocational school together, so they practically grew up together.

"I don't drink, you guys can go." Chen Jingle shook his head.

In his memory, Li Guangming and Chen Wenjie were truly bad friends. Every time they went out for late-night snacks, they would get drunk and not return until noon the next day, which often made his aunt angry.

I guess I'm still at the age where I like to drink, brag, and show off.

Unlike him, who switched to drinking tea for health long ago.

Chen Wenjie laughed and said, "I only called you because you don't drink, otherwise who would drive?"

"Not tonight, I have something more important to do."

Chen Jingle shook his head again.

He was still preoccupied with trying to extract moonlight using the Qi Condensation Technique, and didn't want to postpone it because of a late-night snack.

Besides, I've been busy all day and I'm exhausted. If I can't handle Yuehua tonight, I might as well go to bed early.

"How about tomorrow night?" Chen Wenjie asked.

Chen Jingle thought for two seconds and nodded: "Tomorrow night is fine."

The moon is usually not visible on the 26th or 27th of the lunar month, and it won't reappear until the 3rd or 4th of the following month, so tonight is quite important.

I have time tomorrow and the day after.

Once the experimental results are confirmed, many subsequent matters will be easier to handle.

“Then it’s settled. I’ll let Li Guangming know,” Chen Wenjie said.

Chen Jingle was surprised: "I thought you had already talked to him about it."

Chen Wenjie chuckled, "No, he works with me now, and he doesn't have much to do after get off work. He either plays games or reads novels. I can call him for a late-night snack anytime. Believe me, if I say I'll treat him, he'll run faster than anyone else."

Chen Jingle chuckled and nodded, saying, "Okay, you guys decide when to leave and where to eat."

"Of course. Oh, by the way, I overheard Grandma and Mom chatting at noon, and they said there's a girl in my second sister's village who's about your age..."

Chen Wenjie suddenly remembered something and winked at him.

Chen Jingle: "..."

The usual refrain is that people hope he will get married and have children soon to continue the family line.

He found such remarks utterly boring and couldn't be bothered to say anything.

Not enough words to speculate.

Chen Jingle was too obedient in his early years, and his rebellious phase came relatively late. Now, he doesn't want to listen to anyone, and no one can influence him. He knows better than anyone else how he wants to go in the future, both before and after he awakened his panel.

He bared his teeth and raised his foot as if to kick, but Chen Wenjie quickly dodged with a grin.

Tsk, they're clearly not young anymore, but they still act like children, carefree and thoughtless. I'm envious.

Chen Jingle waved his hand, telling him to get lost.

Then I washed all the pots and pans, locked the front door, and prepared to take a shower.

……

10 pm.

The village was almost silent by now, with only the streetlights and a few lights still on, and the occasional bark of a dog in the distance.

Chen Jingle carried an old straw mat, climbed to the roof, shook it out, and sat cross-legged on it.

On nights with minimal light pollution and clear skies, a crescent moon hangs in the sky, emitting a soft, hazy glow.

At this moment, his heart was already restless.

Because he had personally experienced what the so-called moonlight looked like.

From a scientific perspective, moon halo is actually formed by the diffraction of moonlight through uniformly sized ice crystals or water droplets in transparent thin clouds; it is an atmospheric optical diffraction phenomenon.

However, from a metaphysical perspective, it offers a different interpretation.

This is the energy emanating from the moon, containing some mysterious power that is of great benefit to all living beings.

Compared to the essence of the sun, the essence of the moon is gentler and easier to absorb.

On a full moon night, when the sky is clear and the soft moonlight bathes the earth, the moonlight will be even more pronounced.

Unfortunately, it's already the end of the month, and only a sliver of a crescent moon remains in the sky, so the moonlight that falls down is naturally not much.

It could even be said that the number is pitifully small.

However, Chen Jingle, who was already a low-level spirit plant master, could still clearly feel, thanks to the characteristics of the spirit of all trees, that after the moon rose, the surrounding plants were quietly enjoying the moonlight.

This perfectly illustrates the saying that even mosquito meat is still meat.

It's a very mysterious feeling, and ordinary people probably can't understand or imagine it if you talk about it.

If he hadn't become a spiritual plant master, Chen Jingle wouldn't have been able to access this level either; at most, he would have just thought the night sky was nice and the environment was pleasant.

Chen Jingle began to use the Qi Condensation Technique.

His body trembled slightly, and then his brows furrowed slightly.

Because he clearly sensed that the amount of moonlight in the world was not much more than the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that he tried to capture during the day.

"As expected, we have to wait until the full moon."

Chen Jingle sighed inwardly, but did not give up because of this. Instead, he kept his fingers in the hand seal.

It doesn't matter if the quantity is small, as long as there is something, even if it's just a tiny bit, it's a huge gain.

at last!

After more than three hours of arduous work, his back was almost broken from sitting so long, and finally a faint glimmer of light slowly gathered at his fingertips.

This wasn't some kind of lighting effect; rather, it was a nearly tangible point of moonlight that he had gathered from within a hundred meters, converging together.

If it goes any further, it will condense into dew.

But that's not enough!

He needs to collect at least one drop of moon dew; he simply cannot store ordinary moon dew.

Chen Jingle gritted his teeth and continued to use the Qi Condensation Technique.

Luckily, he added 1 point to his mana attribute, otherwise he really wouldn't have been able to keep going. He was already starting to feel his strength waning.

Ultimately, he had not truly entered the realm of Qi cultivation; he merely relied on the advantages of his profession as a spirit plant master to perform magic techniques with his mortal body.

The depletion of magical power is a feeling similar to having all one's energy and spirit drained, even more tiring than taking multiple flights every day.

Just when Chen Jingle felt he was about to give up, a miracle happened.

That sliver of moonlight successfully condensed into a shape.

Chen Jingle was pleasantly surprised and, without delay, transferred it to a clean bottle that had been prepared beforehand.

Gazing at the single, crystal-clear, dew-like droplet at the bottom of the bottle, condensed and radiating a captivating luster, he couldn't help but marvel, his eyes filled with a slightly dreamy expression.

"Is this the moonlight?"

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(End of this chapter)