Cultivation begins with harvest.

There are three types of tea leaves: small, medium, and large. A medium-sized leaf is when the area of ​​the first leaf at the top of the bud is about two-thirds the size of the second leaf. A small leaf is one-third the size of the second leaf. A large leaf is when the areas are similar.

The two or three leaves, which are not very fresh, are suitable for Chen Guang to practice on.

After picking comes withering, the main purpose of which is to remove water from the tea leaves. Water can hold things, and if there is too much water in the tea leaves, the changes in their properties will be frequent and numerous, which is not conducive to stabilizing the quality. For Dingzhen tea trees, this is very simple. They have the characteristic of having a high demand for water but being unable to retain it. They only need to use the simplest sun-drying method, and the whole process can be completed in about half a day.

Then comes the somewhat troublesome shaking and cooling of the leaves.

Shaking the tea leaves is a process that causes a change in the spiritual energy of tea leaves that are not yet considered tea. It involves using magical power to disrupt the inherent spiritual structure within the tea leaves to a certain extent, allowing the spiritual energy to be more evenly distributed throughout the tea leaves.

The inherent vitality of tea leaves is not evenly distributed. Such hasty tea processing may result in the leaves being either burnt or having insufficient heat when roasted with spiritual fire, leaving them with a greenish, watery appearance. Not only will the tea leaves fail to exert their full potential, but they will also lose all of their inherent vitality.

Cooling the green leaves helps to calm and soothe the chaotic inspiration that arises during the shaking process.

The process of shaking and cooling the tea leaves is carried out alternately, in a certain order and frequency. This process can be summarized as "making the tea leaves," and the details of making the tea leaves vary from tea to tea.

Then it is roasted over a spiritual fire, and finally sealed with a spiritual tool. After a month, the spiritual tool is opened, and the spiritual tea is truly complete.

Making a spiritual tea is truly troublesome.

From picking to processing, and from processing to completion, many steps are required. Therefore, the spiritual tea made by the tea master will have several times the effect of tea leaves picked directly. The value of the gourmet's skills lies in enhancing the effects of these spiritual ingredients.

Chen Guang had read through all the details and precautions of the tea recipe repeatedly. After confirming them, he began to dry the tea leaves and wither them. He protected them with an array, never leaving their side, and constantly monitoring the changes in the tea leaves with his magical power.

As the sun began to set and the sun-drying of the green leaves was nearing completion, preparations for shaking and cooling the green leaves began.

Generally speaking, the changes in cloud formations are more dramatic in the early morning and remain intense throughout the day. By evening, the changes in cloud formations tend to be calmer. Tea recipes suggest that if environmental influences cannot be completely isolated, considering environmental factors can also have a positive impact on tea production.

Chen Guang naturally waited patiently for nightfall.

When the bright sunlight disappeared from the sky, Chen Guang began to use some kind of magical power to stimulate the spirit tea placed in the sieve. Simple shaking was not very useful; it required the participation of magical power to disrupt some of the original spiritual structure of the tea leaves. This was somewhat similar to the cultivation of body-refining techniques, and he quickly adapted and mastered it. However, the timing of shaking the tea leaves was still somewhat elusive.

Suddenly, Chen Guang had a flash of inspiration. His eyes swirled with a bluish-white aura, and in his vision, the tea leaves appeared with a somewhat illusory radiance. The light was like a leaf, with some leaves having broken veins but still containing the spiritual energy, while others had gaps at the edges of the leaves.

The tea leaves, with their holes opened, had already begun to lose their spark of inspiration.

"Clear and Bright Vision, it has such a use! Indeed, the movements shouldn't be too violent. These tea leaves, their veins broke too quickly, the internal spiritual energy was too chaotic and intense, and it has already begun to dissipate naturally."

As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. You need experience and skills to hone your craft, and you need failures and mistakes to make your techniques proficient. Even if you don't understand the subtle changes, you can still judge the timing.

Now it seems like Chen Guang is cheating. Under the clear and bright spiritual eye, the changes in the aura are nowhere to be hidden, and he can see the changes in the tea leaves during the shaking and cooling process more directly.

Originally, Chen Guang thought he needed to practice more with winter and spring teas, but now it seems that after two or three more times, he will be able to understand the specific internal changes and mysteries of tea recipes.

The process of making the tea leaves takes several hours, so Chen Guang patiently treated it as a learning experience, boldly experimenting and making his own conjectures. Although there was a lot of loss in the process of making the tea leaves, Chen Guang himself didn't care, and when the current loss could bring greater future benefits, it was insignificant.

By the time the withering process was finished, it was already late in the morning. Half an ounce of tea leaves had been reduced to a quarter, which was just the amount that was still intact. If it were weighed, the number would be even more exaggerated. But looking at its appearance, the leaves still had a greenish hue, which was very beautiful. Only then did Chen Guang take out a stone the size of a washboard made of black veined stone. It was about four fingers thick. The pure black color was fine, and there were sections of white parts running through the stone like blood vessels. If you looked at it for a while, you would have the illusion that everything was pure black.

He spread the tea leaves evenly on the black stone with his cloud-exploring hand, then covered the surface with floating oil and cloud soil. Only then did a layer of green flame appear in Chen Guang's palm, gradually and evenly heating the black stone. His clear and bright eyes never stopped working.

The consumption of tea making was far greater than he had imagined. That night, Chen Guang took three doses of Star Leaf Powder to restore his magical power, and dared not let his magical power fall below two pots.

As the black stone was slowly heated, even though the tea leaves were covered with floating oil and dust, they were still clearly visible under the secret technique of the eyes, allowing Chen Guang to easily control the heat.

"While any cloud-attribute spiritual object will suffice, floating oil cloud soil isn't the best choice. The Folding Plum Blossom obtained by exchanging Forest Star Flame is far more precious and limited in quantity, so it naturally can't be used in this kind of training."

After more than half an hour, seeing the tea leaves change their appearance again, he quickly used his Cloud-Piercing Hand to remove the floating oil and dust, turned them over, transferred the tea leaves to the red-scaled stone, covered them with the floating oil and dust again, and started heating and baking again. These two heating processes were originally difficult because of the difference in the starting temperature, but in Chen Guang's eyes, they were commonplace, and he completed the transition very easily.

After two hours, as dawn broke, the tea leaves, enveloped in layers of floating oil and dust, were imbued with some spiritual energy from the black vein stone and red scale stone. In this black and red mixed state, Chen Guang sealed them into a wooden spiritual tool. Similar to fermentation, the various spiritual energies were allowed to fuse and stabilize. After waiting for a month, the tea leaves would transform into tea leaves, with their effects enhanced several times over.

Even though it's too early to draw conclusions, Chen Guang is confident that he can succeed on his first try, even if the quality is a bit poor.

The morning breeze is always chilly, especially since it's a northerly wind, but my heart is burning with uncontrollable passion.

Currently, it takes about ten hours to make tea once. Once I have spirit stones in the future, I can set up an array to complete the process, which will make the quality more stable and less troublesome.

After envisioning the future, Chen Guangcai witnessed the arrival of auspicious purple energy from the east. He immediately inhaled and absorbed the energy to begin a new day.