Living a peaceful life in the world of cultivation

I scooped up a handful of grayish-black spiritual soil, and a warm sensation came from my palm.

After pouring the spiritual soil back into his hand, Lü Ping inserted his fingers into the soil.

"Strange, why is there a warm feeling?"

"No such strange thing has happened before when cultivating Cymbidium goeringii."

"Could this place be a place with scorching hot earth?"

Lü Ping shook his head, refuting this conclusion.

Below Yunzhufang City, where water veins abound and the earth's energy is extremely hot, it's practically impossible for such a place to exist.

He glanced at the Flaming Sun Fruit, and a flash of inspiration struck him.

He placed his right hand on the base of the Flaming Sun Fruit, and the warmth returned, even surpassing the spiritual soil where the Iron Sword Orchid was located.

[Spiritual plant practitioner, what are you doing? Where are you touching? Be mindful of your surroundings!]

Ignoring Yan Yangguo's exclamation, Lü Ping withdrew his right hand, thinking to himself, "Just as I expected."

"Fire-element spiritual plants like the Flaming Sun Fruit can actually alter the spiritual soil without anyone noticing."

Due to limitations in his abilities, the spiritual soil that Lü Ping cultivated was attribute-less spiritual soil.

The spiritual plants cultivated in the past, such as Rejuvenating Grass, Moon-Closing Flower, Iron Sword Orchid, Crimson Blood Ginseng, and Cloud Pattern Bamboo, did not show any specific requirements for the affinity of spiritual soil.

As a result, Lü Ping was prejudiced and forgot that the Flaming Sun Fruit is a fire-elemental spiritual plant, which has specific requirements for spiritual earth attributes.

"Good heavens, I didn't expect that apart from the Iron Sword Orchid, the Flame Sun Fruit is also quite persistent in its growth."

Lu Ping couldn't help but praise, "This is the first time I've ever seen a spiritual plant spontaneously change its growing environment during its growth process."

That's natural.

What is this? Without a spiritual plant master to support my lofty ambitions, I will trek through the snow to the mountain peak myself.

[This is merely a minor alteration of the elemental properties of the spirit earth; it's not worth mentioning.]

That's how the Flaming Sun Fruit works; for every point it affirms, it jumps ten points onto Lü Ping's face.

"Several months have passed, and the surface of the spirit soil is only slightly warm."

"You're getting all worked up over me for being fat."

After attacking the Flaming Sun Fruit, Lü Ping immediately thought of another problem.

It now appears that while the elemental soil has no inherent affinity conflict with the Flame Sun Fruit, it offers little benefit to this fire-elemental plant.

Simply cultivating the Flaming Sun Fruit to maturity is not enough; what Lü Ping pursues is to cultivate the Flaming Sun Fruit to a superior, or even perfect, quality.

To change the current situation, the only option is to try one's luck and see if one can exchange for items such as fire stones.

"And also, the Fire Cloud Vine."

Lu Ping was extremely envious of this second-tier spirit seed.

However, even a mid-grade spiritual plant like the Flaming Sun Fruit has a relatively high requirement for spiritual soil attributes; the Fire Cloud Vine is a low-grade second-grade spiritual seed, a dual-natured spiritual seed of yang and fire, so wouldn't its requirement for spiritual soil attributes be even higher?

If the planted Fire Cloud Vine withers and dies before it matures due to the problem with the spiritual soil, then we will suffer a huge loss.

......

the next day.

Lu Ping took three Iron Sword Orchids to Manager Lu and sold them for twenty low-grade spirit stones each, receiving sixty low-grade spirit stones in return.

After that, he got up and headed to Duobaoge.

The good news was that the Treasure Pavilion sold Flame Stones at low prices. Lü Ping spent five low-grade spirit stones to buy all twelve Flame Stones.

The bad news is that the stock of Flame Stones in the Treasure Pavilion is running low, and the remaining Fire Cloud Stone, which can be used as a substitute or a superior alternative to Flame Stones, has also been snapped up.

The weapon-refining workshops in the market area have taken over all the supplies.

Furthermore, due to the geographical location of Yunzhufang City, Lu Ping's purchasing desire alone was not enough to persuade Duobaoge to transfer Flame Stones and Fire Cloud Stones from elsewhere.

To obtain Flame Stones and Fire Cloud Stones, one must spend a large sum of money to pre-order them from the Treasure Pavilion, but delivery will not be until next year, at the same time as the ores needed by the Refining Workshop.

Alternatively, one could seek out the cultivators at the weapon-refining workshop to discuss whether it was possible to trade some ore from them.

Lu Ping did not adopt either of the two suggestions from Xiaoyue, a maid in the Duobao Pavilion.

Even if you order a batch of Flame Stones from Duobaoge, the travel expenses charged by Duobaoge are as high as hundreds of low-grade spirit stones. They don't treat spirit stones as spirit stones at all. Lü Ping can afford the spirit stones, but as a Qi Refining Level 4 Spirit Plant Master, he cannot afford such high travel expenses.

As for seeking advice from cultivators in the weapon-refining workshop, Lü Ping could only say, "Don't even think about it."

The cultivators in Yunzhufang City are not so easy to get along with.

Previously, cultivating Crimson Blood Ginseng required the flesh and blood of monsters with abundant blood and qi, and Zhao Dashan had to act as an intermediary to purchase it from Xiangyun Tower.

This was partly due to the fact that Zhang Yunlai, the manager of Xiangyunlou, was easy to talk to.

However, the Fire Cloud Stones used by the cultivators in the weapon-refining workshop are used to ignite spiritual fire and refine magical artifacts, which is closely related to the vital interests of weapon-refining cultivators. In addition, weapon-refining cultivators are exposed to the fire day and night, and their bodies are more or less corroded by the fire poison, making them irritable. As a mere Qi Refining Level 4 cultivator, it would be best for him not to provoke them.

"Right now, there are only two places to go," Lü Ping thought to himself.

These two places are the West District Cultivator Market and the South District Cultivator Market.

The cultivators in the western district are a mixed bag, and the land reclamation project led by the Li family has attracted many small caravans as well as traveling merchants from all over the country, who have quite a few strange and unusual items in their possession.

As for the Southern District's independent cultivator market, Lü Ping didn't have high hopes.

Lu Ping kept walking and hurried to the West District Market for Reclusive Cultivators.

Compared to the West District's independent cultivator market, the independent cultivator markets in the East and South Districts can only be considered small-scale operations.

The Yunzhu Li family has already issued a notice that the second phase of land reclamation will begin in a while.

Therefore, the West District Market for Individual Cultivators has once again reached a small peak.

Items that the monks had previously kept hidden were now on display.

In the West District's independent cultivator market, there were many independent cultivators from other areas. Lü Ping saw several familiar fellow cultivators and exchanged greetings with them.

Walking through the crowd, Lü Ping searched back and forth.

There was no trace of minerals such as flame stone or fire cloud stone.

Suddenly, as he passed a vendor's stall, Lü Ping stopped in his tracks, noticing traces of the Flame Stone and the Fire Cloud Stone.

The stall owner was a black-robed cultivator with a Qi Refining level of four, similar to Lü Ping.

Upon seeing Lü Ping stop, the black-robed cultivator let out a long sigh of relief, as if he were overcoming something.

"Fellow Daoist, what have you taken a fancy to?"

"How much is this?"

Following the direction Lü Ping pointed, the black-robed cultivator looked and was quite surprised.

He has a lot of good stuff at his stall, so why did this local cultivator take a fancy to his chickens?

To be precise, it was a brood of young turkeys.

Inside the chicken coop made of mud by the black-robed cultivator, two young fire-feathered chickens hatched, while the remaining three white eggs remained unopened.

"Fellow Daoist, are you truly interested in my chicken?"

Hearing the black-robed cultivator's slightly surprised words, Lü Ping fell silent for some reason; this man could talk.

"To correct you, fellow Daoist, I have my eye on this flock of Firefeather Chickens at your stall." Lu Ping spoke clearly, correcting the black-robed cultivator's slip of the tongue: "Fellow Daoist, name your price."

"this......"

"Fixed price, ten spirit stones."

Lu Ping quickly paid the black-robed cultivator ten low-grade spirit stones, picked up a brood of fire-feathered chickens, and disappeared into the crowd.

Watching Lü Ping's elegant departure, the black-robed cultivator felt a pang of regret.

"Oh no, we still lost money..."